Talk:Chickasaw Campaign of 1736

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My ancestor, French marine aide Maj. Pierre Gabriel de Juzan, of Mobile, Alabama, was killed in combat against Chickasaws, First Battle of Ackia, Tupelo, Missisippi Military District. His kinsman, Canadian marines aide Maj. Charles Pierre de Liette and Capt. Antoine de Tontey (di Tonti) were killed Second Battle of Ackia. Maj. Juzan's son "Don Pedro", Pierre Francoise Gabriel de Juzan (born after his father's death), was his Spanish Majesty's Indian Commissioner to Alabama (DAR ally Patriot as he ran Spanish service agents against British agents amongst the Indians). Don Pedro's grandson, Chief Capt. Pierre de Juzan, inn keeper, Juzan's Lake, Missisippi, led 52 Choctaws from the swamp against the British right flank, Battle of New Orleans. In the removal, Pierre was Choctaw conductor, his brother William de Juzan, Chickasaw conductor. Maj. Juzan's (above) father Pierre de Juzan, was the intendent of the estates of the Count of Ponchartrain, intendent of marine. Juzan's brother Sauveur de Juzan, was Ponchartrain's courrier to the King. Brother Jacques Juzan was a marine supply officer. Maj. Juzan's mother was Michelle de Liette de Juzan of "the King's cabins", Versailles. Maj. Juzan (b 1697) was commissioned a Lt. 1714 of the Regt. de Bearn, and 1718 aide Maj. du Battaillon de Milice de Redone 1726, then charge de conduire un detachment de miliciens en Louisiane, aide Maj. de Mobile 1733, killed bravely in combat 05-26-1736. His son was Ens. 1752-1762. Francois Sauveur courrier du cabinet de roy b 1707, Jacques commissaire de la marine b ? Don Pedro's 3rd wife and young widow, Pelegia Lorriens de Juzan (Lorriens from Canada to New Orleans), returned to her parent's home, "The Old Spanish Customs House", St. John's Bayou, New Orleans; the oldest existing home in N.O. She died 1848 at her brother's Covington plantation. James A. Miller, Jr., Southport, North Carolina, USA. Juzan, Liette, and Tontey were recommended for French medal after their deaths. Question: Does the French government provide grave stones or memorial stones for it's citizen soldiers fallen bravely in combat in foreign fields?

Note to above: Thank you very much for the personal story, please sign it with four tildes ~. Hughespj 00:33, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Gayarre had access to official reports by Bienville, indeed quotes them, and seems to be the best available history. Dumont de Montigny participated, but he is said to have an axe to grind against Bienville, and his account in Memoires Historiques sur la Louisiane was recollected 10 years later. Not having any accounts of Chickasaw individual bravery, it did not seem proper to mention the French or their allies either. Hughespj 17:46, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Some early histories explicitly favor Dumont's Memoires over Gayarre since the Memoires are almost contemporary with the events described. I have come across more objections to the Memoires and as a result have removed reference to them. His manuscript is said to be prepared from recollection, without sources, years later in France. It has been suggested his manuscript was 'pumped up' for publication by the Abbé Le Mascrier (http://www.lewis-clark.org/content/content-article.asp?ArticleID=2373). Atkinson (p. 56) disbelieves that Dumont was at the Ackia battlefield at all. Since the manuscript is presently in translation at the Newberry Library (http://www.newberry.org/renaissance/current%20grants/montigny.html)we will soon be able to judge for ourselves. In the meantime any history preferring this source can be immediately identified by the chronology of d'Artaguette's attack.

In the meantime the French were great communicators, and massive original correspondence is still available (here is a great page of just maps and drawings: http://rla.unc.edu/Natchez/index.html#sec_d). That with archeological examination of the Chickasaw homeland provided ample material for Atkinson to add some real meat to the story. Hughespj 00:04, 17 February 2007 (UTC)