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Caption: Philippe de Rigaud de Vaudreuil, Marquis de Vaudreuil (circa 1643 – 1725) Governor General of New France 1703 to 1725

The Marquis de Vaudreuil was a former officer of the Régiment des mousquetaires in the royal guard of the King of France. Appointed Governor General of New France in 1703, Philippe de Rigauld de Vaudreuil ably organized the defence of Canada with slim resources during the War of Spanish Succession (or Queen Anne’s war). From 1713 until his death in 1725, he consolidated the French territorial gains in the Great Lakes and upper Mississippi. In 1742, de Vaudreuil's son Pierre de Rigauld de Vaudreuil de Cavagnial, Marquis de Vaudreuil followed in his father's footsteps and became the only Canadian-born Governor General of New France. (National Archives of Canada C10614)