=Dupuy, Claude Thomas.= Intendant of New France, 1726-1728. Although a man of some ability, was extremely pretentious and self-opinionated, and became involved in constant quarrels with the governor and the bishop. =Bib.=: Roy, _Intendants de la Nouvelle-France_ (R. S. C., 1903). =Duquesne de Menneville, Michel Ange, Marquis de.= Appointed governor of New France 1752, in succession to La Jonquière. His policy was to intercept communication between New England and the western Indians and thus to restore the Indians to dependence on France. In the spring of 1753 sent a force of a thousand men under Morin to the Ohio district; a fort was built at Presque Isle and another, Fort Le Boeuf, inland on River Le Boeuf. Disease made ravages among the troops, and while 300 were left to garrison the forts, the remainder were compelled to return to Montreal, and Duquesne's plans for a further advance were frustrated. Nevertheless the Indians were brought into submission to the French. Improved the organization of the government of the colony, and through thorough discipline raised the efficiency of the colonial troops. Succeeded in 1755 by the Marquis de Vaudreuil. =Bib.=: Parkman, _Montcalm and Wolfe_; Bradley, _The Fight for Canada_; Fiske, _New France and New England_. =Durell, Philip.= Second-in-command, under Admiral Saunders, before Quebec, 1759. =Index=: =WM= Instructed to cruise off St. Lawrence, 75; makes some captures, 78; arrives at Ile-aux-Coudres, and establishes camp, 88; his grandson captured, 90. =Bib.=: Wood, _Logs of the Conquest of Canada_ and _The Fight for Canada_; Doughty, _Siege of Quebec_.