User:David Kernow/Roland-Michel Barrin de La Galissonière
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Roland-Michel Barrin, marquis de La Galissonière (sometimes Galissonnière; 10 November 1693 – 26 October 1756) was the French governor of New France from 1747 to 1749.
| Preceded by Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois |
French Governor of New France 1747–1749 |
Succeeded by Le Marquis de La Jonquière |
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LA GALISSONNIERE, Roland Michel BARRIN de.
Born in 1693 in Rochefort (Charente-Maritime) Sailor. Galissonnière is a captain in 1738, and in 1745, he becomes governor of Canada. He establishes in Quebec of the shipbuilding yards and an arsenal, and makes build forts between Canada and Louisiana. In 1749, it must turn over to France to take there the functions of chief of squadron and director of the deposit of the charts and plans of the marine. The following year, one entrusts the delicate mission to him to define with the English the limits of the possessions of the two countries in Acadie. In 1756, ordering the squadron sent to the Balearic Islands with the duke of Richelieu, Galissonnière beats the English with broad of Mahon (Minorque). It dies the same year.
