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ABRAHAM,JOHN, governor of Port Nelson; fl. 1672–89.
He joined the HBC about 1672 and served in James Bay 1672–75 and 1676–78 under Governor Charles Bayly, against whom he brought charges of mismanagement. In 1679 Abraham was appointed second to John Nixon, Bayly’s successor and although he absconded with an advance of salary at sailing time, he was engaged in 1681 as mate of the Diligence (Capt. Nehemiah Walker) and wintered in James Bay.
Despite Nixon’s criticisms of him, Abraham was promoted captain of the George in 1683, his destination being Port Nelson, where Governor John Bridgar had gone in 1682 to establish a fort. En route Abraham assisted Nehemiah Walker to capture the interloper Expectation and, on arrival, finding that the Company’s post had been destroyed and that Bridgar, with Benjamin Gillam* the New England interloper, had been captured and taken to Quebec by Radisson* and Chouart Des Groseilliers, he assumed command. After a winter spent harassing and competing with Jean-Baptiste Chouart, Des Groseilliers’s son, Abraham was homeward-bound when he received a commission as governor of Port Nelson. He returned and during his first weeks of office York Fort was built under George Geyer’s supervision and an attack, made by the newly arrived M. de
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Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the son of a French planter in Guadeloupe and a slave of Senegalese origin, was a violinist, composer, soldier and fencer.
Saint-Georges lived an extraordinary life, enjoying success both as a swordsman and as a musician, but his brief military career during the French Revolution ended with his imprisonment for “unrevolutionary behaviour”.
Like the music of many composers of his time, Saint-Georges’s works fell into obscurity but the man himself was not forgotten. With his extraordinary range of talents, exotic persona and breadth of creative expression, he came to be regarded as an archetypal romantic hero.
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