Desbarres, Joseph Frederick, military engineer and hydrographer, aide-de-camp of General Wolfe at Quebec; fortified Quebec; surveyed the St. Lawrence; revised the maps of the American coast at the outbreak of the American war; died at Halifax, Nova Scotia, aged 102 (1722‒1824).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Desault * Descamps