- Alexandre de Prouville
Marquis Alexandre de Prouville de Tracy (c. 1596 or 1603 – 1670) was a French aristocrat,
statesman , and military leader. He was theseigneur of Tracy-le-Val and Tracy-le-Mont (Picardy )He first made his name as a regimental commander in Germany in the 1640s, then was appointed Commissary-General of the French troops serving in Germany. In 1647 he represented France at the Ulm negotiations with Sweden and Bavaria.
After driving out the Dutch from the
West Indies in 1664, the Marquis de Tracy was appointed lieutenant-général ofNew France . The governor was not present, so de Tracy acted as the governor in the Sovereign Council.From his base in
Quebec City , as Lieutenant General of theCarignan-Salières Regiment , he initiated a brutal war against theIroquois peoples. After defeating them and destroying their crops and villages, he launched an attack against theMohawk nation and causing destruction to their territory. Marquis Alexandre de Prouville de Tracy seized all the Mohawk lands in the name of the king of France, and forced the Mohawks to accept the Roman Catholic faith and to adopt the French language as taught by theJesuit missionaries.Marquis Alexandre de Prouville de Tracy died in
Paris in theparish ofSaint-Eustache in 1670.See also
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Vincent Basset Du Tartre (surgeon major)External links
* [http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=534 Biography at the "Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online"]
*CathEncy|wstitle=Alexandre De Prouville, Marquis de Tracy
* [http://www.histoiredesorel.ca Histoire de Sorel-Tracy"]
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