Daniel Liénard de Beaujeu

Daniel -Hyacinthe -Marie Liénard de Beaujeu ( born August 19 in 1711 in Ville- Marie ( Montréal today ), New France, † July 9, 1755 in Fort Duquesne ) was a Canadian officer in the French army.

Career as an officer

After his accession to the French army, probably still in his youth, he was sent as one of the commander of a 700 -strong force to Nova Scotia in order to organize a force coming from France for the conquest of the fortress of Louisbourg.

Beaujeu fought in the Battle of Grand Pré, which was won on February 11, 1747 after two days of fighting by the French army.

On 5 July 1749, he was commander at Fort Niagara. There he wrote some letters that were published in 1931 in the Bulletin of recherches historiques.

In 1755 he replaced Claude- Pierre Pécaudy as commanding officer of the newly built Fort Duquesne.

He was commander at the Battle of the Monongahela on July 9, 1755 where he fell in battle. The French won the battle and Beaujeu was considered the " hero of the Monongahela ." It was only later revealed that the battle was essentially won by his subsequent commander, Jean -Daniel Dumas.

Beaujeus body was returned to Fort Duquesne, where he was buried on 12 July 1755.

Private life

1737 he married his wife in Québec, Michelle Elizabeth Foucault. Together they had nine children, of whom, however, only two daughters survived childhood.