Bougainville is among the officers who accompanies…

1761 CE

Bougainville is among the officers who accompanies Lévis to Saint Helen's Island off Montreal for the last French stand in North America before the general capitulation of 1761.

Of the war, Bougainville writes in his journal: "It is an abominable kind of war. The very air we breathe is contagious of insensibility and hardness". (Cave, Alfred A., The French and Indian War (New York, Greenwood Press, 2004, p. 11).

Shipped back to Europe along with the other French officers, all deprived of military honors by the victors, Bougainville is prohibited by the terms of surrender from any further active duty against the British.

He will spend the remaining years of the Seven Years' War as a diplomat, helping to negotiate the Treaty of Paris, under which France will cede most of New France east of the Mississippi River to the British Empire.

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Montréal Quebec Canada View →

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François-Gaston de Lévis View → Louis-Antoine de Bougainville View →

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New France (French Colony) View → France, (Bourbon) Kingdom of View → Britain, Kingdom of Great View → Rogers' Rangers View →

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Colonization of the Americas, French View → Colonization of the Americas, British View → French and Indian War View → Seven Years' War View → Plains of Abraham, Battle of the View →

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