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Date from | Date to | Event | Source | |
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Appointed 2nd Seigneur de Vaudreuil et de Rigaud | ref:631 | |||
16.6.1708 | Enseigne de Milice | ref:673 | ||
16.6.1708 | At Canada . | ref:673 | ||
14.6.1711 | Garde de la Marine | ref:673 | ||
5.7.1711 | Expectation of Enseigne in Canada . | ref:673 | ||
28.12.1712 | Lieutenant d'une Compagnie Franche de la Marine (Enseigne de Vaisseau) | ref:673 | ||
2.6.1715 | Capitaine d'une Compagnie Franche de la Marine (Lieutenant de Vaisseau) | ref:673 | ||
23.4.1726 | Appointed Major de la Marine at Canada | ref:673 | ||
1727 | He is part of the expedition led by Captain Le Marchand de Lignery against the Fox Indians . | ref:673 | ||
20.4.1729 | Appointed Aide-Major de la Marine | ref:673 | ||
25.3.1730 | Appointed Chevalier l’Ordre Royal et Militaire de Saint-Louis | ref:673 | ||
1.4.1733 | Appointed Gouverneur at Trois Rivières | ref:673 | ||
1.1.1742 | 1753 | Appointed Gouverneur at Louisiana | ref:673 | |
10.7.1746 | Capitaine de Vaisseau | ref:673 | ||
1.1.1755 | 9.1760 | Appointed Gouverneur Général at Nouvelle-France | ref:673 | |
23.6.1755 | Capture of Fort Beauséjour by the British troops of Robert Monckton : beginnings of the war to come . | ref:673 | ||
1756 | 1757 | Vaudreuil's main activity from his arrival in Quebec was to be the conduct of military operations.The victories of 1756 (attack and destruction of Oswego ensuring the mastery of the Great Lakes) and 1757 (capture of Fort Georges) , seem to give reason to his combat tactics made of "hand attacks" , effective by forcing the enemy to immobilize large numbers of staff . On this point and on others he came into conflict with the Marquis de Montcalm , commander of the French battalions in Canada . | ref:673 | |
1757 | Appointed Commandeur l’Ordre Royal et Militaire de Saint-Louis | ref:673 | ||
1759 | Appointed 3rd Marquis de Vaudreuil | ref:631 | ||
18.9.1759 | Capture of Quebec by the British . | ref:673 | ||
8.9.1760 | Capture of Montréal by the British. | ref:673 | ||
27.11.1760 | "Affair of Canada": on November 27, 1760 , Levis , second in command of Montcalm , summed up this affair by writing to the Minister of the Navy "Without seeking to give inappropriate praise, I think I can say that Mr Marquis de Vaudreuil has put into use until 'at the last moment all the resources of which prudence and human experience can be capable ”. | ref:673 | ||
30.3.1762 | 8.5.1763 | Rigaud de Vaudreuil accused of having lost Canada , was sent to the Bastille , freed on May 18, 1762. | ref:673 | |
10.12.1763 | He is exonerated. The King allowed him to be invested with the Grand Cross of the Order of St Louis with an additional pension of 6,000 Livres . | ref:673 | ||
1764 | Appointed Grand Cross l’Ordre Royal et Militaire de Saint-Louis | ref:673 |