Note 75 — Front matter

This statement is wholly without foundation. Iberville was the third son of a burgher of Dieppe one Charles Le Moyne, father of fourteen children, who migrated from his native country to Canada in 1640, at which place he joined the Jesuits. Sieur d’ Bienville together with his brother were leaders in that conflict with the English in the Hudson Bay region (see Winsor, Narrative and Critical History, Vol. IV), and it is not exaggeration to term Pierre le Moyne, Sieur d’Iberville, as one of the most noted Canadian naval officers of his time. His death occurred from yellow fever, July 9, 1706, at Havana. Cf. The First Great Canadian. By Charles B. Reed, Chic., 1910; also Wis. Hist. Coll., Vol. XVI. Certain writers affirm the relations between Sauvole and the others here mentioned, notably Gayarre, in his History of Louisiana, Vol. I, page 58. Later authorities, however, as Hamilton, Colonial Mobile, page 32, take opposite views. See note 51 for a sketch of Le Sueur.