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The History of Detroit and Michigan By Silas Farmer

Divided loyalties in a doomed empire ... - Google Book Search : "The genealogy of the French-speaking members of the Lewis and Clark expedition can often be traced back to the times where the fleur-de-lys was flying over New France. The terra incognita was explored to gratify Louis XIV's lust for the brown gold of the fur trade. By the time of the Lewis and Clark expedition, the French were well integrated into the North American population. These men were instrumental in the success of the Corps of Discovery. Observers from the Montreal North West Company spied on the expedition for fear of American encroachments. New Spain sent in vain a French adventurer to capture Meriwether Lewis. The legend of the West has both French and American heroes in common among the coureurs de bois (white Indians) and mountain men."

Digitized by Google 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 o...

Redefining Fallen Timbers The Treaty of Greeneville was a successful Indian treaty for the Americans, especially when contrasted with earlier treaties signed by the Miami, Shawnee, or Wyandot tribes. [67] Historian Rufus King wrote of the Treaty of Greeneville: "Never after that treaty, to their honor be it remembered, did the Indian nations violate the limits which it established. It was a grand tribute to General Wayne that no chief or warrior who gave him the hand at Greene Ville ever after 'lifted the hatchet' against the United States." [68] However, the treaty did not prevent but merely delayed an era of renewed hostilities. Historian Reginald Horsman writes that, "The resounding phrases of the famous Treaty of Greenville thus meant very little...The Indians thought the Greenville line was to last forever, the Americans know better." [69] Land organized for settlement in 1796 and 1800 pursuant the Northwest Ordinance ignored the boundary line agreed...

Legends of Le Détroit By Marie Caroline Watson Hamlin, James Valentine Campbell, Isabella Stewart Gardner Digitized By Google Legends of Le Détroit By Marie Caroline Watson Hamlin, James Valentine Campbell, Isabella Stewart Gardner The following Genealogies are from the Legends of Le Detroit as for their accuracy I have not confirmed They show some of the family connections between the Interpreters at Detroit (Please do not take down the tree it was made and developed by me) Open publication - Free publishing - More detroit

(I Question this date and I think father Flazet was "Rev Father Flaget". Jean B. Sanscrainte (John B Sancraint) he may of been on a missionary tour in 1765 but I think his father was at Michilimackinac as early as 1760 records show He would of been 11 years old in 1765 records show him having the same name as his father Jean I can find no other record of a Flazet Sanscrainte or anyone of that name- Kevin Lajiness) History of Monroe County, Michigan ... By Talcott Enoch Wing History of Monroe County, Michigan ... By Talcott Enoch Wing