The Memoir of Lieutenant Dumont, 1715-1747: A Sojourner in the French Atlantic by

The Memoir of Lieutenant Dumont, 1715-1747: A Sojourner in the French Atlantic

Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American Histo

455 pages • missing pub info (editions)

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In 1719, Jean-Francois-Benjamin Dumont de Montigny, son of a Paris lawyer, set sail for Louisiana with a commission as a lieutenant after a year in Quebec. During his peregrinations over the next eighteen years, Dumont came to challenge corrupt of...

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