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Founder of the colony of Louisiana, b. at Villemarie, Montreal, 16 July, ; d.

at Havana, 9 July, He was the third son of Charles Le Moyne, a native of Dieppe Sieur de Longueuil in Canada, and of Catharine Primot. Several of his brothers distinguished themselves greatly as explorers and sailors, viz., the Sieurs de Longueuil, Sainte-Helene, Maricourt, Serigny, Chateauguay, and Bienville.

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Iberville became a sailor at an early age and served as a volunteer under the Chevalier de Troyes in Hudson Bay. In he began a brilliant career as soldier and sailor, and took part in many expeditions against the English. In an attack against Fort Rupert, with his brother Maricourt and nine men in two bark canoes, he captured an English ship with fifteen men and the governor of Hudson Bay.

In he took Fort Nelson in Hudson Bay, which he named Bourbon, and in Fort Pemaquid in Maine. In also he captured all the English settlements on the c