but his representatives kept large numbers from joining in the revolt. The rest of hio life was spent in St. Jerome, of which he was may jr.
MONTIGNY, Francis Joliet de, clergyman,
b. in Paris, France, in 1661 ; d. there in 1725.
After finishing his course in theology he went to
Quebec, where he was ordained on 8 March, 1698,
and appointed pastor of St. Ange Gardien, and
director of the Ursuline nuns. In 1698 he was
made vicar-general, and he was sent by the Semi-
nary of Quebec in the following year to found new
missions along Mississippi river. He reached
Mackinaw in September and entered the Missis-
sippi in December. After preaching to the Tama-
rois Indians, he sailed down the river to the
villages of the Arkansas, Tonicas, and Taensas.
He baptized eighty-five children of the latter
tribe and built a chapel among them in 1700. He
then proceeded to the Tonicas on Yazoo river,
where he built a mission-house and placed a mis-
sionary. After visiting the French settlement at
Biloxi he extended his labors to the Natchez Indi-
ans, but the Jesuits complained of his presence as
an intrusion into a district in which they had
already begun to labor, and Montigny found his
position so embarrassing that, with a view of
arranging matters, he sailed for France in May,
1700. He returned to Canada, and is said to have
been superior of the Seminary of Quebec in 1716-'19.
MONTIGNY, Jacques Testard de, Canadian
soldier, b. in Canada about 1662 ; d. there in July,
1787. He went to France at an early age and en-
tered the army. After taking part in three cam-
paigns he returned to Canada and. as a volunteer,
accompanied the expedition against Schenectady,
where he was severely wounded in 1690. On his
recovery he was made garde marine in 1693. At
the head of an Indian force he followed Iberville
to Acadia in 1696, and forced the English to sur-
render Fort Pemaquid, threatening to abandon
them to the savages if he was obliged to take it by
storm. He was then made second in command to
Iberville, and ordered to take possession of the
heights through which the latter intended passing
on his way to besiege St. John. On the route
Montigny cut to pieces an English detachment.
He held another English force in check until the
arrival of Iberville, and, after defeating it, con-
tinued his march to St. John, which was entered
on 28 Nov., 1696. He afterward drove the English
from Portugal cove and other strong places in
Newfoundland, taking nearly 900 prisoners, whom
he was obliged to release, as he had not men enough
to guard them. In 1705 he took part in another
expedition against Newfoundland. After the coast
was reduced he occupied Carbonniere and Bona-
vista. He commanded the van of the Canadian
force that opposed an unsuccessful attempt of the
English to invade Canada in 1710. In 1712 he re-
ceived the cross of St. Louis for his services. — His
son, Jean Baptiste Testard, Canadian soldier, b.
in Villemarie, Canada, in 1724 ; d. in Blois, France,
20 Nov., 1786, entered the military service at the
age of twelve, and was made ensign four years
afterward. He served with the garrison of Fort
Frederick till 1745, when he took part in several
expeditions, in one of which he defeated an Eng-
lish detachment. In 1748 he commanded part of
the troops that were sent to invade Connecticut,
and, having been ordered to reconnoitre, advanced
several leagues in front of the main body at the
head of a small force. While making the circuit
of a wood he suddenly came on a superior body of
sixty English troops, which he routed, killing
twenty and taking nine prisoners. In 1754 he
was sent to Belle Riviere with 100 Indians, with
directions to proceed afterward to Fort Duquesne.
He did much to bring about the defeat of Brad-
dock's army, and was proposed by the French
commander for the cross of St. Louis in conse-
quence. In 1758 he was stationed among the
Miamis, who were wavering in their allegiance.
He was entirely successful in his mission, and on
his return to Montreal was appointed to a com-
martd in the force that was sent to besiege Oswego,
where he did good service. After the capture of
this town he marched, in 1758, at the head of 300
men to the aid of Fort Niagara, which was threat-
ened by the English. He I'eturned to Montreal in
1759, but was immediately sent back with 550 men
to the same port. On the capture of Fort Niagara
he was taken prisoner and kept for two years in
New England. After the cession of Canada by
France the English government made him tempt-
ing offers to enter their service, while the French
government promised to indemnify him for his
losses in Canada if he would enter theirs. He
sailed for France in 1764, and was well received at
court, but the government's promises were not
kept, and he died in poverty.
MONTILLA, Tomas (mon-tee'-yah), Venezue-
lan soldier, b. in Caracas in 1778 ; d. there, 25 June,
1822. He was an active member of the revolu-
tionary jimta of 1810, and an intimate associate of
Bolivar. Refusing to accept the conditions of the
capitulation at Victoria, he was imprisoned by
Monteverde, but soon recovered his liberty and
went to Colombia, where he served in the cam-
paigns of 1813-'14, and accompanied Bolivar in
the occupation of Bogota on 12 Dec. of the lat-
ter year. He was in the campaign against the
rebellious junta of Carthagena in 1815, and, after
being sent by Bolivar to Bogota, went thence to
Barinas and was the companion of Paez in 1816 at
Arichuna, the battle of Yagual, and the taking of
Achaguas. In 1818 he was governor of Guayana,
and on 15 Feb., 1819, became a member of the
congress of Angostura. On 12 June, 1819, he
fought in the battle of Cantaura. He accompanied
Bolivar after the battle of Carabobo to Caracas,
where he remained in garrison till his death. — His
brother, Mariano, Venezuelan soldier, b. in Cara-
cas, 8 Sept., 1782 ; d. there, 22 Sept., 1851, was
sent to Spain to be educated, and in the war
against Portugal served in the royal body-guard
at the siege of Olivenca in 1799. After obtaining
his discharge he returned to Venezuela in 1806,
and was a member of the revolutionary juntas of
1809 and 1810. He fought against the royalists in
Valencia in 1811, but at the time of the capitula-
tion of Miranda he was in the Antilles, whence he
returned in 1813 and assisted in the campaigns of
that year and 1814. In 1815 he aided in the de-
fence of Carthagena. and after the evacuation took
part in the expedition of Mina against Mexico, but,
not being in full accord with Bolivar regarding
his expedition from Hayti in 1816, permitted his
officers and men to join the latter while he re-
mained in the Antilles. In 1819 he joined Gen.
Urdaneta in Margarita, became his chief-of-staff,
and accompanied him in the campaign of Barce-
lona. He was sent in 1820 as chief of an expedi-
tion to Colombia, where he attacked Carthagena in
July, and was forced to raise the siege, but cap-
tured the city in the following year. He was
promoted general of division in 1824, and appointed
military governor of Santa Marta, but after Boli-
var's death he retired to private life. In 1834 he
was sent as the first regular minister of Venezuela
to England, where he signed a treaty of commerces
