Antoine de La Mothe, Sieur de Cadillac landing on Lake Saint Clair, founding Fort Detroit 1701. Hand-colored woodcut of a Howard Pyle illustra

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Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration by Howard Pyle

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Photo credit: © North Wind Picture Archives / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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