Editing Ohio River (section)

===={{anchor|Charles Le Moyne III, Baron de Longueil, 1739}}Charles III Le Moyne, Baron de Longueil (1739)====
[[Charles III Le Moyne]], second [[Baron de Longueuil]] (later the governor of [[Montreal]] and interim governor of [[New France]]), commanded [[Fort Niagara]] from 1726 to 1733.<ref name=jillson/> He led an expedition of 442 men, including Native Americans, from Montreal to war against the [[Chickasaw]] who occupied territory on the lower part of the Mississippi River in the area claimed as [[La Louisiane]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Banta |first=R.E. |title=The Ohio |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |date=1998 |orig-year=1949 |location=Lexington, Kentucky |url={{google books|YNB9OxE_0v8C|plainurl=yes|page=60}} |page=60 |isbn=978-0-8131-2098-0}}</ref> According to [[Gaston Pierre de Lévis]], Duke de Mirepoix, the expedition used the Ohio River as a corridor to the Mississippi.

{{blockquote|Among the officers who accompanied this party were Major de Lignery; Lieutenants, de Vassan, Aubert de Gaspe, Du Vivier, de Verrier, Le Gardeur de St. Pierre, Chevalier de Villiers, de Portneuf, de Sabrevious; Father Vernet, chaplain; Cadets, [[Daniel-Marie Chabert de Joncaire de Clausonne|Joncaire de Closonne]], Le Gai de Joncaire, Drouet de Richarville the younger, Chaussegros de Lery the younger, de Gannes, Chev. Benoist, de Morville, de Selles, and seventeen others. The rank and file consisted of three sergeants, six corporals, six lance corporals, twenty-four soldiers, forty-five ''[[habitants]]'', one hundred and eighty-six [[Iroquois]] from the Sault, forty-one from the [[Lake of Two Mountains]], thirty-two [[Algonquian peoples|Algonquin]] and [[Nipissing First Nation|Nipissing]], fifty [[Abenaki|Abenaqui]] from St. Francois and Bécancour, Quebec; Father La Bretonnier, Jesuit; Queret, missionary.{{sfn|Hanna|1911|page=239}} }}

One of the first reported eyewitness accounts of [[Shannoah]], a Shawnee town, was by le Moyne III in July 1739. On their journey down the Ohio River toward the Mississippi, they met with local chiefs in a village on the [[Scioto River]].