He spent part of his life defending French Canada against British attacks. Canadian! He died of malaria while preparing to launch an attack against British bases in the region of North and South Carolina.
Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville; (b. July 16, 1661, Montreal, Canada - d. July 9, 1706, Havana, Cuba) was a Canadian soldier and explorer of French origin who established the first permanent French settlement in French territory in Louisiana.
At the age of fourteen, he was appointed as a second lieutenant in the French Navy and sent to France. After serving on French ships for four years, he returned to Canada. In 1686 he commanded a French attack against English forts at Fludson Bay. He spent most of the next 10 years defending French Canada against British attacks.
Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville[a] (16 July 1661 – 9 July 1706) or Sieur d'Iberville was a French soldier, explorer, colonial administrator, and trader. He is noted for founding the colony of Louisiana in New France. He was born in Montreal to French colonist parents.
After the signing of the Treaty of Rijswijk (1697), which ended the conflicts between the British and the French arising from the struggle for sovereignty over Hudson Bay, he was assigned to establish a colony in the Mississippi Delta. After settling 200 colonists in Mobile Bay (in present-day Alabama) in January 1699, he discovered new places along the northern shores of the Gulf of Mexico while searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River. Meanwhile, Iberville, who is thought to have entered the delta of the Mississippi and followed the river to the mouth of the Red River, could not find a suitable place to establish a colony, so he built Maurepas Castle, where the city of Biloxi in the state of Mississippi is located today, and moved the colonists he settled in Mobile Bay there. A year after establishing this colony, which was the first permanent French settlement on the Gulf of Mexico, he founded a second settlement on the Mississippi coast, near where New Orleans is located. However since the climatic conditions of the region were not suitable for permanent living, he had to move most of the colonists he settled here to the banks of the Mobile River after a while.
Upon the resumption of war with England, he abandoned his plans to expand the colony and took command of the West Indies fleet. In 1706, he launched an attack on the islands of Nevis and St Kitts and forced the British to surrender. He also seized 30 British ships and captured 1,750 British soldiers. He died of malaria while preparing to launch an attack against British bases in the region where today's North and South Carolina states are located.