François-Antoine Pécaudy de Contrecœur (; 1676 – July 2, 1743) was a military man by career (
Carignan-Salières Regiment
The Carignan-Salières Regiment was a 17th-century French military unit formed by the merging of two other regiments in 1659. Approximately 1,100 men from the regiment were sent to New France in 1665 to deal with the threat of the Iroquois to the ...
) and had inherited the seigneury of Contrecœur from his father,
Antoine Pécaudy de Contrecœur. His son,
Claude-Pierre Pécaudy de Contrecœur was an officer in French colonial forces and a key figure in the
French and Indian War
The French and Indian War, 1754 to 1763, was a colonial conflict in North America between Kingdom of Great Britain, Great Britain and Kingdom of France, France, along with their respective Native Americans in the United States, Native American ...
.
François-Antoine Pécaudy was part of many important military campaigns. They included
Governor Frontenac's against the
Onondagas
The Onondaga people (Onontaerrhonon, Onondaga: , "People of the Hills") are one of the five original nations of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy in the Northeastern Woodlands. Their historical homelands are in and around present-day Ono ...
and
Oneidas in 1696.
Pécaudy de Contrecœur became a knight of the
order of Saint-Louis
The Royal and Military Order of Saint Louis () is a dynastic order of chivalry founded 5 April 1693 by King Louis XIV, named after Saint Louis (King Louis IX of France). It was intended as a reward for exceptional officers, notable as the fir ...
in 1738. He mapped of Lake Champlain and, in October 1741, he was placed in command of
Fort Saint Frédéric south of the lake. In the spring of 1743, he was replaced by
Bécart de Granville.
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1670s births
1743 deaths
People of New France
Knights of the Order of Saint Louis
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