Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit or Fort Detroit (1701–1796) was a fort established on the north bank of the Detroit River by the French officer Antoine...
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Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac (category History of Detroit)
commander of Fort de Buade in St. Ignace, Michigan, in 1694. In 1701, he founded Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit (which became the city of Detroit); he was...
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Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac and Alphonse de Tonty founded Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit. During the late 19th and early 20th century, it became an important...
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comte de Pontchartrain, French statesman Fort Detroit (Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit), Detroit, Michigan Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana Pontchartrain Park...
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Campau family (category History of Detroit)
sometimes spelled "Campeau". Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founded Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit in 1701 and sold 68 land grants between 1707 and 1710, two of...
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Cadillac sailed up the Detroit River on July 23, 1701. The next day, he established Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit, which developed as Detroit. The French named...
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established a social media site on the Detroit River which they named Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit, today the city of Detroit. Their wives joined them and are...
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Hotel Pontchartrain in New Orleans, as was Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit in Michigan (the site of modern-day Detroit) and Detroit's Hotel Pontchartrain. The...
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Canada (New France) (section Domaine du roy)
Joseph Island, Ontario on Lake Huron), Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit (1701) (today's Detroit, Michigan), Fort Michilimackinac (1715) (on the Straits of...
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Fort Wayne is Detroit's third fort. The first, Fort Pontchartrain du Detroit, was built by the French in 1701 near current day Hart Plaza. This fort,...
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establish the first European settlement at Detroit, Michigan, Fort Pontchartrain du Detroit on the Detroit River in 1701. Several months later, both Cadillac...
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Valley to Detroit to violently protest against the Meskwaki relationship with the French. Because of the Meskwaki moving into Fort Detroit in 1711, French-allied...
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de La Mothe founded Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit, which became the center of French military presence in the region. Other forts in the area strengthened...
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Louis Phélypeaux, Marquis of Phélypeaux (redirect from Comte de Pontchartrain)
given to Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit (the site of modern-day Detroit), and to Detroit's Hotel Pontchartrain. Isle Phelipeaux, Isle Pontchartrain, and Isle...
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Frenchmen to establish a post called Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit, naming it after his sponsor the comte de Pontchartrain, Minister of Marine under Louis...
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additional French-Canadians, founded a settlement called Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit, now the city of Detroit. When New France was defeated in the French and...
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Mothe Cadillac founded Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit or "Fort Pontchartrain on-the-Strait" on the strait, known as the Detroit River, between lakes Saint...
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Philip A. Hart Plaza (redirect from Detroit Hart Plaza)
landed in 1701 when he founded Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit, the settlement that became Detroit. In 2011, the Detroit-Wayne County Port Authority opened...
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was the first building constructed in Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit. The vicinity developed as the city of Detroit. Cadillac and a party of French colonists...
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Montreal to explore the Great Lakes region, founding Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit (now Detroit) in July. Jesuit priests resumed their spiritual mission-based...
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gone by 1688. Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founded Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit (modern-day Detroit) in 1701 and Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville...
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to Canada with his wife. Ruined, he became a soldier in Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit (Detroit), finishing sergeant. He died on 12 May 1745 in Boucherville...
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Detroit, Michigan was founded by Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac in 1701, a French army captain, and was originally called Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit...
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Upper Canada (redirect from Province du Haut-Canada)
the Hurons at Midland in 1649, Sault Ste. Marie in 1668, and Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit in 1701. Southern Ontario was part of the Pays d'en-haut (Upper...
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List of military installations in Michigan (category Forts in Michigan)
Michigan, built in 1691, given to Britain 1761 Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit, built in 1701, replaced Fort de Buade, turned over by the French to Britain...
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history, sometimes called the "great peace." Detroit, Michigan founded as Fort Pontchartrain du détroit by Antoine de Lamothe Cadillac. War of the Spanish...
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Michigan Berlin → Marne Bronson → Kalamazoo East Detroit → Eastpointe Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit → Detroit Harlow → Hog's Hallow → McDouglasville → Utica...
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landed in 1701 when he founded Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit, the settlement that became Detroit. In 2011, the Detroit-Wayne County Port Authority opened...
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Joseph Campau (category Businesspeople from Detroit)
settled at Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit in 1708, one year after his brother Michel. Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founded Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit in 1701...
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the Detroit River under orders from the French king Louis XIV. They named it Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit, in homage to the Count of Pontchartrain, the...
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