Free Ebook The City of Detroit Michigan 1701-1922 Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)
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Published on: 2012-08-14
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The City of Detroit PART VMILITARY HISTORY CHAPTER XXXIII FORTS AND MILITARY POSTS DULUTH spost POKT PONTCHARTRAIN PORT LERNOULT PORT SHELBY PORT CROGHAN, OR PORT NONSENSE PORT WAYNE. Although details which concern the various forts which have stood at Detroit have been given throughout the chapters dealing with the early military history of the place, we herewith present a few connected details in brief form. The first forts in the region about the Great Lakes were established by the French for the purpose of faci Utating trade with the I ndians, and as a protection against the forajrs of unfriendly Indian tribes. The presence of a fort was regarded by the red men as evidence that the French were masters of the country. As early as 1671 a fort was built at Michilimackinac, a small garrison was stationed there to protect the traders and friendly I ndians, and to prevent the English from opening a trafl Scwith the western tribes. DUluth spost On June 6, 1686, Marquis de Denonville, governor-general of New France, wrote to Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Luth, former conmiandant at MichiU- mackinac and then in charge of Indian affairs on the upper lakes, as follows: You will see from the letters which I am writing to M. de la Durantaye that my intention is that you should occupy a post at the Strait of Lake Erie with fifty men, that you should choose a post in an advantageous spot so as to secure this passage to us, to protect our savages who go hunting there, and to serve them as a refuge against the designs of their enemies and ours; you will do nothing and say nothing to the Iroquois imless they venture on any attempt against you and against our allies. You will take care that each (of the fifty men) provide himself with provisions sufl Bcient for his subsistence at the said post, when I doubt not you may trade for peltries. Durantaye was at that time commandant(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.) History of Detroit - Wikipedia The city of Detroit the largest city in the state of Michigan settled in 1701 is the first European settlement above tidewater in North America. Developing from a ...
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