Daniel d'Auger de Subercase

Daniel d'Auger de Subercase
Daniel d'Auger de Subercase

Daniel d'Auger de Subercase (February 12, 1661 – November 20, 1732) naval officer and French governor of Newfoundland, born Orthez, Béarn died Cannes-Ecluse, Île-de-France.

D'Auger de Subercase was baptised a Protestant, served about 10 years in the land forces before joining the navy and sailed for Quebec in 1687 to be named lieutenant-commander, garrison adjutant and adjutant general. Subercase was then appointed as governor of Plaisance on April 1, 1702, but did not arrive at his post until 1703, during the early years of Queen Anne's War. He immediately attacked Ferryland where he learned of a planned English attack on Plaisance. During the fall of 1704 he organized a series of attacks against English outposts on Newfoundland. These resulted in the temporary capture of Bay Bulls and Petty Harbour in January 1705 and a failed siege of the main English settlement at St. John's. Unable to subdue the fort they set out to destroying settlements in Conception Bay and Trinity Bay.

Subercase became the governor of Acadia in April 1706. He successfully led the defense of Port Royal against two failed sieges in 1707, but in 1710 Subercase surrendered Port-Royal to the British after a successful siege.

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Political offices
Preceded by
Joseph de Monic
Governor of Plaisance
1702–1706
Succeeded by
Philippe Pastour de Costebelle
Preceded by
Simon-Pierre Denys de Bonaventure
Governor of Acadia
1706–1710
Succeeded by
Samuel Vetch as Governor of Nova Scotia