Joseph-Dominique-Emmanuel Le Moyne de Longueuil (April 2, 1738 – January 19, 1807) was a soldier,

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and politician in

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and

Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...

. The son of Paul-Joseph Le Moyne de Longueuil and Marie-Geneviève Joybert de Soulanges, he was born in the seigneury of Soulanges and joined the colonial regular troops at the age of 12. In 1751, he was named second ensign. He led a group of Hurons from Notre-Dame-de-Lorette to

Fort Duquesne Fort Duquesne (, ; originally called ''Fort Du Quesne'') was a fort French colonization of the Americas, established by the French in 1754, at the confluence of the Allegheny River, Allegheny and Monongahela River, Monongahela rivers. It was lat ...

as part of an expedition led by

Louis Coulon de Villiers Louis Coulon, Sieur de Villiers (17 August 1710 – 2 November 1757) was a French military officer who served during the French and Indian War. Perhaps his greatest claim to fame is the fact that he is the only military opponent to force Geor ...

to the Ohio country in 1754. In May 1755, he was promoted to ensign and, in July of that year, took part in the

Battle of the Monongahela The Battle of the Monongahela (also known as the Battle of Braddock's Field and the Battle of the Wilderness) took place on 9 July 1755, at the beginning of the French and Indian War, at Braddock's Field in what is now Braddock, Pennsylvania, e ...

. In 1759, he was promoted to infantry lieutenant and was named adjutant at

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. After the defeat by the British, he went to

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and stayed with his great uncle

Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville (; ; February 23, 1680 – March 7, 1767), also known as Sieur de Bienville, was a French colonial administrator in New France. Born in Montreal, he was an early governor of French Louisiana, appointed four ...

. After Bienville's death in 1767, he returned to Quebec. In 1770, Longueuil married Louise Prud'homme. During the American invasion of Quebec, he led a group of Canadian volunteers at Fort Saint-Jean. He was taken prisoner and sent to the United States in November 1775. When he returned to Quebec in 1777, he was named inspector of militia by Governor Sir Guy Carleton. He was also named to the

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. Longueuil owned the seigneuries of Soulanges, Nouvelle-Longueuil, and Pointe-à-l’Original, which he had been received from his father. He sold the seigneury of Pointe-à-l’Original in 1784. In 1780, he was named major and, in 1794, became colonel of the Vaudreuil militia. In 1796, he was named lieutenant-colonel for the Royal Canadian Volunteer Regiment. Longueuil died at home in

Montreal Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as '' Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple ...

of cholera at the age of 68. He left the two remaining seigneuries to his nephew

Georges-René Saveuse de Beaujeu Georges-René Saveuse de Beaujeu, Comte de Beaujeu (June 4, 1810 – July 29, 1865) was a seigneur and political figure in Canada East. He was born in Montreal in 1810, the son of seigneur Jacques-Philippe Saveuse de Beaujeu and Catherine Cha ...

, who served in the

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