Claude-Antoine de Bermen de La Martinière (12 July 1700 – 24 December 1761) was a Quebec

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Quebec , also Québec, Quebec City or Québec City is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in Quebec after Montreal, which is about to the southwest...

 born son of Claude de Bermen de la Martinière

Claude de Bermen de la Martinière

Claude de Bermen de la Martinière was born in France and came to New France in 1662. Through marriage, he became the owner of a large seigneury and held a number of important positions throughout his time in Canada....

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Claude-Antoine de Bermen became an officer in the colonial regular troops. He enjoyed a career marked by important assignment and recognition of his efforts were marked by his receipt of the Order of Saint-Louis. Two important assignments highlighted his career. In 1737 he was appointed commander of Fort La Baye

Fort La Baye

Fort La Baye was a French military post at La Baye, which was built in 1717, and occupied until 1760.By 1718, there were a number of Canadien families living in the area near the fort. Other families settled across the river from the fort in an area which was called Munnomonee, because of the...

, (now Green Bay, Wis.). In 1751 he commanded Fort Beauséjour

Fort Beauséjour

Fort Beauséjour, was built during Father Le Loutre's War from 1751-1755; it is located at the Isthmus of Chignecto in present-day Aulac, New Brunswick, Canada...

during its construction.