The Memoir of Lieutenant Dumont, 1715-1747: A Sojourner in the French Atlantic

by Jean-François-Benjamin Dumont De Montigny and Gordon M. Sayre

In 1719, Jean-Fran ois-Benjamin Dumont de Montigny, son of a Paris lawyer, set sail for Louisiana with a commission as a lieutenant after a year in Quebec. During his peregrinations over the next eighteen years, Dumont came to challenge corrupt officials, found himself in jail, eked out a living as a colonial subsistence farmer, survived life-threatening storms and epidemics, encountered pirates, witnessed the 1719 battle for Pensacola, described...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807837229
• ISBN13: 9780807837221
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Omohundro Institute and Unc Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 2.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.3"