. The new eclectic history of the United States . which contained their by the Chickasaws, they planned a suddenvengeance, and murdered in one morning two hun-dred Frenchmen. When the news reached New Orleans, aforce was sent which surprised and defeated the Natchez. TheGreat Sun and four hundred of his subjects were sold asslaves to the Spaniards in Hayti. All who escaped joinedother tribes, and the nation became extinct. 169. New Orleans, which, in 1723, succeeded,. Mobile as the seat of French government in Louisiana, nowcontained 4,000 white settlersand 2,000 negroes. It ex-po
. The new eclectic history of the United States . which contained their by the Chickasaws, they planned a suddenvengeance, and murdered in one morning two hun-dred Frenchmen. When the news reached New Orleans, aforce was sent which surprised and defeated the Natchez. TheGreat Sun and four hundred of his subjects were sold asslaves to the Spaniards in Hayti. All who escaped joinedother tribes, and the nation became extinct. 169. New Orleans, which, in 1723, succeeded,. Mobile as the seat of French government in Louisiana, nowcontained 4,000 white settlersand 2,000 negroes. It ex-ported to France small quanti-ties of cotton, indigo, and thewax of the candle-berry, acurious production which wasmuch valued in those days. Itschief trade, however, was in the furswhich were collected from the north-ern Indians and brought down thegreat river in canoes. Discouraged by the report of the lossof Natchez, the Company decided that the cost of the colonywas greater than the profit, and surrendered all its rights to thecrown. =& French Colonists in New Orleans. 170. French Forts.—The French guarded their American pos-sessions by a chain of sixty forts from the mouth of the to that of the Mississippi. Among the most im-portant, besides the citadels of Quebec and Montreal, wereFort St. Frederic (Crown Point), on Lake Champlain; Frontenac 102 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. near the outlet of Lake Ontario; Niagara, Detroit, Chicagou;forts on the present sites of Vincennes in Indiana, Memphis,and Natchez. Questions.—What three classes of Frenchmen explored America?What was clone by Marquette ? What by the fur-traders ? Tell the plansand adventures of La Salle. Mow were Mississippi and Alabamafounded? What was the Mississippi Scheme? What State did Law-found? What became of the Natchez Indians? What was the earlytrade of New Orleans? Name the principal French forts. Map Exercise.—Point, on Map No. III., to the towns founded by Mar-quette {\ 161). The Fre
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