If you are a descendant of a Mylott, a Glode, a Wills, a Beauvais, a Bissonnette, a Yetto, a St Hilaire or a Rivet on this site, you have an ancestor, at least one and probably more, who was in the Carignan-Salieres regiment. In the mid 1660s, the Carignan-Salieres, veterans of the war with the Ottoman Empire, recruited new young men in France to be sent to the colony in Québec to protect the economic interests of the crown from the Iroquois nation. The Iroquois, assisted and encouraged by the Dutch and later English interests in New England and New Amsterdam, picked off settlers in the French Colony - sometimes there were massacres of entire settlements in Montréal, called Ville Marie at that time. The Champlain - Richelieu water corridor made raids into Quebec from New England a straight shot. The reverse was also true, French interests and allies used the same corridor to raid New York and New England. Twelve hundred troops began arriving in June 1665 and were immediately put into service building Fort Sorel and Fort Ste Anne on Isle la Motte in Lake Champlain, now a part of Vermont. They also constructed Fort St Jean, Fort Ste Therese, and Fort St Louis (later Fort Chambly), all on the Richelieu River. In January of 1666, the middle of winter, 300 under equipped troops were sent on a fool's mission into enemy territory by the Québec governor. Traveling over a hundred miles, starving and hypothermic, they arrived in the Dutch settlement of Schenectady where the kind farmers fed and sheltered them. They returned to Quebec having learned a brutal lesson that many upstate New Yorkers know too well. Don't go into the north country without the proper equipment in the middle of January! Scapulurs worn around one's neck. Made by nuns for divine protection of the soldiers. Displayed at the museum at Fort Chambly Then in the fall of 1666, there was another expedition to Iroquois country. Traveling form Québec, French soldiers reached their destination in the Mohawk Valley, west of Schenectady in two to three weeks. This time, they were successful destroying several Mohawk villages. Their efforts earned a peace between the Iroquois and French settlers after more than two decades of guerilla war by Iroquois. After the peace was made in 1667, the regiments were disbanded and returned to France. However, over 400 men choose to remain in Quebec, marry and start families there. We are the descendants of many of these soldiers. Below is a link to a gorgeously written document of the individual names of soldiers in the Carignan-Salieres Regiments. A Listing of Soldiers in the Carignan-Salieres Regiment The Bissonnette (Wills), Beauvais (Wills), Millot (Mylott), Glode-Poissant and Rivet-LaCasse families all have forefathers who served in the Carignan-Salieres Regiment. Although this list is a work in progress, it is a beginning to identify all Carignan-Salieres forefathers of the families on this site. You may note in the list below, some individuals are in more than one family; they are ancestors in two families and some like Louis Robert and Nicolas Sylvestre, are ancestors in three families. Here is the list thus far: In the Glode-Poissant family there are at least sixteen: Louis Badillac dit Laplante Jean Besset dit Brisetout Jean Bricault dit Lamarche Jean Brochu dit La Fontaine Michel Brouillet dit Laviolette Etienne Charles dit Lajeunesse Pierre Couc dit LaFleur Jean Delpé dit Pariseau Julien Dumont dit LaFleur Jean Gazaille dit St Germain André Jarret dit de Beuregard Jean Lavallée dit Petit Jean Pierre Menard dit Lapierre Issac Paquet dit Lavallée Louis Robert dit LaPommeraye Jacques Têtu dit Larivière In the Bissonnette family there are ten: Bernard De Niger dit Sanssoucy René Dumas dit Rencontre Antoine Dupré dit Rochefort Antoine Emery dit Coderre Aubin Lambert dit Champagne Louis Robert dit LaPommeraye Jean Robin dit Lapointe Antoine Rousseau dit LaBonté Jacques Suprenant dit Sanssoucy Nicholas Sylvestre dit Champagne In the Beauvais family there are eight: Francois Biville dit Le Picard Antoine Emery dit Coderre Pierre Favreau dit Deslauriers Nicolas Bonin dit St Martin Julien Lord dit Montagne Pierre Mésnard dit Xaintogne Jacques Paviot dit LaPensée Pierre Morin dit Champagne In the Millot family there are three: Francois Chagnon dit LaRose Louis Robert dit LaPommeraye Nicholas Sylvestre dit Champagne In the Rivet and LaCasse families there are ten: Antoine Casse dit Lacasse Francois Chagnon dit LaRose Bernard Delpêche dit Bellair Antoine Emery dit Coderre Pierre Favreau dit Deslauriers Julien Lord dit Montagne Piere Mageau dit Maisonseule Pierre Mésnard dit Xaintonge Eustache Prévost dit Lafleur Nicolas Sylvestre dit Champagne