Fort Duquesne was named for which governor-general of New France?

Fort Duquesne was named for which governor-general of New France? It was named for Marquis Duquesne.

The fort honored Michel-Ange Duquesne de Menneville, commonly called Marquis Duquesne, who served as governor-general of New France from 1752 to 1755. French forces constructed Fort Duquesne in 1754 at the Forks of the Ohio, where the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers meet at present-day Pittsburgh.

The French seized the site after a small Virginia garrison abandoned Fort Prince George. They demolished the unfinished British fort and replaced it with a larger installation intended to secure French communication between the Great Lakes and the Ohio Valley. Its position made it central to the opening campaigns of the French and Indian War.

George Washington attacked a French force near the fort at the Battle of Jumonville Glen in 1754, helping ignite the wider conflict. The British later captured the site in 1758 and renamed it Fort Pitt. The other options were prominent figures of the war, but none gave Fort Duquesne its name.