Paul Marin de la Malgue ( bap. 19 March 1692 – 29 October 1753) was the eldest son of

Charles-Paul Marin de la Malgue Charles-Paul Marin de la Malgue, (1633 – 14 April 1713), was an officer in the colonial regular troops. The first record of his activity is in 1682 when he set out from Fort Frontenac to investigate the death of a prominent member of the Senec ...

and Catherine Niquet. He was born in

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and, as many of the prominent historical figures of his time, had a military career in the colonial regular troops. He was commissioned an

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in May 1722, and in the same year he was given command of a post near

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. His career was a military one with a significant amount of time spent south of

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in what is now part of the

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. His activities, which included the construction of Fort de la Rivière au Bœuf (''Fort Le Boeuf'') are significant in the attempts of the French to secure a sustainable foothold in the Ohio region. His military successes earned him the cross of Saint Louis but he died before learning of this honor. In 1730, he led the battle at the Siege of Little Butte des Mortes, in what is now

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.Marin, Paul, 1692-1753
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in the

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and Siege of Annapolis Royal (1745) during

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