Alexandre de Prouville de Tracy

Alexandre de Prouville de Tracy
Seigneur of Tracy-le-Val and Tracy-le-Mont
Bornc. 1603
Died28 April 1670
Occupation(s)Military leader and statesman
Lieutenant Général of the Americas
In office
November 1664 – 1667
Governor general of the French Antilles
In office
7 Jun 1664 – April 1665
Preceded byPhillippe de Longvilliers de Poincy
Succeeded byAntoine Lefèbvre de La Barre
Governor of New France (acting)
In office
6 May 1665 – 12 September 1665
Preceded byAugustin de Saffray de Mésy
Succeeded byDaniel de Rémy de Courcelle
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Alexandre de Prouville de Tracy (c. 1603 – 1670) was a French military leader, statesman, and the seigneur of Tracy-le-Val and Tracy-le-Mont in Picardy, France. A professional soldier, he was a regimental commander during the Thirty Years Wars, and was later appointed commissary general of French forces in Germany. In 1663, he was commissioned lieutenant-général of the French colonies in the Americas. In 1664, he led an expedition that expelled the Dutch from Guiana. The following year he sailed to New France where, in 1666, he led the Carignan-Salieres Regiment and Canadien volunteers in an invasion of the Mohawk homeland. He returned to France after reaching peace settlements with the Mohawk and the other Iroquois nations, and was appointed commandant at Dunkirk, and later governor of the Château Trompette in Bordeaux.