63:, France on December 26, 1626. His father was a lawyer. It is not known when Saurel became a military officer but by 1665 he was a captain and company commander in the Carignan-Salières Regiment. The Carignan-Salières was formed in 1659 by the merger of two existing regiments: the Carignan, raised in 1644 by Thomas-François de Savoie, Prince of Carignan, and the Salières (formerly the Balthasar Regiment), raised by Johann Balthasar de Gachéo during the Thirty Years' War.
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that killed seven soldiers and captured four including Tracy's cousin, Lieutenant Louis de Canchy de Lerole. Two days away from the nearest Mohawk village, Saurel encountered a delegation who were returning the four unharmed prisoners to New France. Saurel refused his
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but had been abandoned in 1646 and burned by the Mohawk in 1647. Fort
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Saurel’s company participated in Tracy’s large-scale expedition against the Mohawk later that year. The expedition razed four villages which the Mohawk had hastily abandoned and destroyed their stores of food. A peace settlement with the Mohawk was reached the following year.
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and a few had returned to France. In 1681 the seigneury had a population of 118 with roughly 400 acres under cultivation. The inhabitants included farmers, shoemakers, carpenters, a ropemaker, tanner, miller, edge-tool maker, cooper, and a surgeon.
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