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3 unusual facts about Maximilien Globensky


Charles Auguste Maximilien Globensky

Globensky was the grandson of August Franz Globensky, a Hessian surgeon who settled in Verchères, Quebec, and the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Maximilien Globensky.

Maximilien Globensky

Born in Verchères, Lower Canada, Maximilien was the seventh child of August Franz Globensky, a Prussian-born Polish surgeon who served with Hessian mercenaries and settled in Lower Canada after his detachment fought on the side of the British in the American War of Independence.

On 14 December 1837, Globensky's company blocked the retreat of Patriote rebels fleeing from British regulars in Saint-Eustache.



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