. The new eclectic history of the United States . igan was visited in 1610 or 1612 by French explorers, and its straitsand islands later became the sites of several important forts and trading-posts(# 161). The first permanent settlement of Detroit was in 1701, when one hun-dred French immigrants, led by Cadillac, built a few log houses inclosed by astockade. The little town had its full share of suffering in the long wars be-tween the English and the French and Indians. Detroit was held by the Britishtwelve years after the Revolutionary War had ended (§§326,331). In 1812 itwas again seized by
. The new eclectic history of the United States . igan was visited in 1610 or 1612 by French explorers, and its straitsand islands later became the sites of several important forts and trading-posts(# 161). The first permanent settlement of Detroit was in 1701, when one hun-dred French immigrants, led by Cadillac, built a few log houses inclosed by astockade. The little town had its full share of suffering in the long wars be-tween the English and the French and Indians. Detroit was held by the Britishtwelve years after the Revolutionary War had ended (§§326,331). In 1812 itwas again seized by them, but was regained, together with all Michigan, byPerrys victory at Lake Erie (§§381, 382). After peace was restored, easternimmigrants were soon drawn to the fertile lands of Michigan ; and in 1837, aftertwo years delay in the settlement of her southern boundary, she became thetwenty-fifth in the Union of American States. CHAPTER XXVI. EIGHTH AND NINTH TERMS, A. I). 1817-1825.[AMES MONROE, President. DANIEL D, TOMPKINS,
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