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Pierre Ayotte was a
French-Canadian
French Canadians (referred to as Canadiens mainly before the twentieth century; french: Canadiens français, ; feminine form: , ), or Franco-Canadians (french: Franco-Canadiens), refers to either an ethnic group who trace their ancestry to Fr ...
soldier and
fur trade
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r who served with American revolutionary foreces during the
American Revolutionary War
The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was a major war of the American Revolution. Widely considered as the war that secured the independence of t ...
. Ayotte, who was an inhabitant of
Kamouraska,
[ was just as devoted to the revolutionary cause as other Quebecois soldiers on the American side of the conflict such as ]Clément Gosselin
Clément Gosselin (June 12, 1747 – March 9, 1816) was a French Canadian soldier who served in Moses Hazen's 2nd Canadian Regiment of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He recruited other French Canadians, assisted in A ...
, with whom he served in the 2nd Canadian Regiment
The 2nd Canadian Regiment (1776–1783), also known as Congress' Own or Hazen's Regiment, was authorized on January 20, 1776, as an Extra Continental regiment and raised in the province of Quebec for service with the American Continental Arm ...
.
Both Ayotte and Gosselin were Canadian volunteers who first served with General Richard Montgomery
Richard Montgomery (2 December 1738 – 31 December 1775) was an Irish soldier who first served in the British Army. He later became a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and he is most famous for l ...
, then went on to become recruiters and agitators for American revolutionary groups on the south shore of the lower portion of the Saint Lawrence River
The St. Lawrence River (french: Fleuve Saint-Laurent, ) is a large river in the middle latitudes of North America. Its headwaters begin flowing from Lake Ontario in a (roughly) northeasterly direction, into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, connectin ...
. Following Montgomery's death at the Battle of Quebec, the two became captains in Colonel Jeremiah Duggan
Jeremiah, Modern Hebrew, Modern: , Tiberian vocalization, Tiberian: ; el, Ἰερεμίας, Ieremíās; meaning "Yahweh, Yah shall raise" (c. 650 – c. 570 BC), also called Jeremias or the "weeping prophet", was one of the major proph ...
's Canadian regiment. The Continental Congress
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subsequently transferred command of the regiment to Moses Hazen
Moses Hazen (June 1, 1733 – February 5, 1803) was a brigadier general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Born in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, he saw action in the French and Indian War with Rogers' Rang ...
. Ayotte helped to raise troops for the American cause and fought at the Battle of Saint-Pierre
The Battle of Saint-Pierre was a military confrontation on March 25, 1776, near the Quebec village of Saint-Pierre, south of Quebec City. This confrontation, which occurred during the Continental Army's siege of Quebec following its defeat at t ...
.[ He was captured near Quebec City in May 1776.][
Once the British surrendered to American forces at the ]Battle of Yorktown
The Siege of Yorktown, also known as the Battle of Yorktown, the surrender at Yorktown, or the German battle (from the presence of Germans in all three armies), beginning on September 28, 1781, and ending on October 19, 1781, at Yorktown, Virgi ...
the American Revolutionary war was mostly ended. In 1783, Congress granted Ayotte land in the Lake Champlain
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area in recognition of his service.
References
Continental Army officers from Canada
French Canadians in the American Revolution
French Quebecers
People of pre-Confederation Canada
American spies during the American Revolution
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