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...
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municipality of Chambly. In 1965 it was renamed Carignan to honour the Carignan-Salières Regiment. Carignan is made up of small urban blocks surrounded by...
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River. The RCM is named after Pierre de Saurel, a captain of the Carignan-Salières Regiment who rebuilt Fort Richelieu in 1666 and later became the area's...
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Richelieu River. The fort was first built in 1666 by soldiers of the Carignan-Salières Regiment of France who had travelled to New France to assist the young...
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consisted of a mix of regular soldiers from the French Army (Carignan-Salières Regiment) and French Navy (Troupes de la marine, later Compagnies Franches...
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60. Barr (2006), p. 59. Verney, Jack (1991). The Good Regiment: The Carignan Salières Regiment in Canada, 1665-1668. Montreal, Quebec: McGill-Queens University...
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threat of the Iroquois to New France. The Carignan-Salières Regiment, commanded by Henri de Chastelard de Salières, was assigned to Tracy and would sail directly...
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area, Pierre de Saurel. He was in command of a company of the Carignan-Salières Regiment that landed in New France in August 1665. He was granted a seigneury...
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married Pierre Joffrion, a farmer and former grenadier from the Carignan-Salières Regiment, shortly after her arrival in 1669. Louis Coutlée, one of the...
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Jean-Baptiste Colbert ordered the 24 companies composing the Carignan-Salières Regiment to duty in New France. Beginning with departures from the port...
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