Legends of Le Detroit By Marie Caroline Watson Hamlin, James Valentine Campbell, Isabella Stewart Gardner
For nearly sixty years after Cadillac’s founding of Detroit, It was a completely French town socially as well as governmentally
"Cadillac's village," or "Detroit under Cadillac." With list of property owners, and a history of the settlement 1701 to 1710 By Clarence Monroe Burton
"FRENCH RULE CAME TO A END
in Detroit in 1760 when the village was given to the British as part of the spoils of the French and Indian War. Although Part of a long European power struggle between France and England, the conflict was almost entirely a North American war. It grew out of the desire of the English seaboard colonies for the vast Ohio River and Great Lakes country, which Were French property. The war lasted from I 754 until 1760, but Detroit never came under direct attack from the British was settled elsewhere, on the Plains of Abraham just outside Quebec. On September 13, 1759, British General James Wolfe scaled the high bluff that appeared to make the city impregnable and decisively defeated the French defenders. Only Montreal was left, and it was surrendered Sept.8,1760" Taken from “This is Detroit, 1701-2001” By Arthur M. Woodford
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