. North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history. , N. S., was captured by the English, but was restored by treaty. Compte de Buade Frontenac was appointed governor general of the Frenchpossessions in North America in 1672, and under his administration, as early as1680, the French had built military posts at Niagara, Michilimackinac (Mack-inaw), and in the Illinois country. Frontenac inaugurated a vigorous war against the Hudsons Bay Companytrading posts, and on the English settlements along the frontier. Sir WilliamPhips (or Phipps), governor of the Province of Massachusetts Ba
. North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history. , N. S., was captured by the English, but was restored by treaty. Compte de Buade Frontenac was appointed governor general of the Frenchpossessions in North America in 1672, and under his administration, as early as1680, the French had built military posts at Niagara, Michilimackinac (Mack-inaw), and in the Illinois country. Frontenac inaugurated a vigorous war against the Hudsons Bay Companytrading posts, and on the English settlements along the frontier. Sir WilliamPhips (or Phipps), governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (1692-1694),in 1690 in an expedition by land and sea from Boston again captured Port Royal,but failed in his attempts to capture Quebec. During Queen Annes war, 1705to 1713, Port Royal having been restored to France, was again captured byCol. John Nicholson, in 1710. and renamed Ann-apolis in honor of Queen Anne. The next year the campaign against Quebec under General John (Jack)Hill, with 2,000 veterans under Colonel Nicholson, supported by a fleet com- i ^. HISTORY OF NORTH DAKOTA 9 nianded by Sir Howard Walker, failed through disaster to the fleet from a stormon the St. Lawrence River. Queen Annes war closed in 1713, by the Treatyof Utrecht, and was followed by a few years of peace, between the French andEnglish, the French gradually extending their dominion to the valley of theMississippi River, forming a chain of forts around the English whose settle-ments were menaced at every point beyond the Alleghany Mountains. FRENCH FORTS ON THE BORDER As stated in Francis Parkmans Half a Century of Conflict, Niagara heldthe passage from Lake Ontario to Lake Erie, Detroit closed the entrance toLake Huron, and Michilimackinac guarded the point where Lake Huron is joinedby lakes Michigan and Superior, while the fort called La Baye, at the head ofGreen Bay, stopped the way to the Mississippi by Marquettes old route of theFox River and the Wisconsin. Another route to the Mississippi wa
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