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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