What to see in America . cked the fort, and not one of the garrison survived totell the tale. St. Louis, twenty miles below the mouth of the Missouri,began as a fur-trading station in 1763. The towns firstchurch was built seven years later. Its walls were offlattened logs set on end, and the interstices were filled withmortar. At the time of the Revolution the people dug atrench and erected a stockade around the town, and in thecenter of the inclosure built a fort which they supplied withfour small cannon. One May morning in 1780 a thousandL^pper IMississippi Indiansled by Canadian-French ren-
What to see in America . cked the fort, and not one of the garrison survived totell the tale. St. Louis, twenty miles below the mouth of the Missouri,began as a fur-trading station in 1763. The towns firstchurch was built seven years later. Its walls were offlattened logs set on end, and the interstices were filled withmortar. At the time of the Revolution the people dug atrench and erected a stockade around the town, and in thecenter of the inclosure built a fort which they supplied withfour small cannon. One May morning in 1780 a thousandL^pper IMississippi Indiansled by Canadian-French ren-egades appeared, slew fortyfield-workers and capturedfifteen others. The fortifi-cations and the booming ofcannon saved the fort. TheSpanish governor was drunkand came to command thedefenders sprawling in awheelbarrow and mutteringincoherently after the In-dians had been repulsedand gone off up the riverin their war canoes. Whenthe Ignited States acquiredLouisiana in 1804, St. Louiswas a village of one hundred Market Day.
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