Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Roch de Ramezay, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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New France Administrator
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Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
About Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Roch de Ramezay
- Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Roch, Seigneur de Ramezay, (4 September 1708, Montreal, New France – 7 May 1777, Blaye, France; officer of the marines and colonial administrator for New France during the 18th century.
- Joining at age 11, as an ensign, he fought campaigns against the Meskwaki tribe in Illinois, and the British in Acadia.
- In 1759, during the Seven Years' War, as the King's lieutenant; he signed, in the name of Louis XV, the Articles of Capitulation of the City of Quebec, for which he was later criticised.
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