. Detroit, "The city of the strait"; historical, descriptive, illustrated . y immigrants. Their long journey through the woods ofCanada and down the waters of Lake Huron and the St. Clairis ending as they near the shore to the music of fife and the prow of the first and largest boat stands a statelyfigure in the rich costume of the French court, with broadlaced cliapeau and curling locks. It is the Sieur de la MotheCadillac, who having pointed out to his monarch that thestrategic key to the Great Lakes and the illimitable regionbeyond was upon this shore, has come with the commission t
. Detroit, "The city of the strait"; historical, descriptive, illustrated . y immigrants. Their long journey through the woods ofCanada and down the waters of Lake Huron and the St. Clairis ending as they near the shore to the music of fife and the prow of the first and largest boat stands a statelyfigure in the rich costume of the French court, with broadlaced cliapeau and curling locks. It is the Sieur de la MotheCadillac, who having pointed out to his monarch that thestrategic key to the Great Lakes and the illimitable regionbeyond was upon this shore, has come with the commission toestablish here a fort and colony. This is July, 1701. The w ^^^^-^^^^MHlfll IK. j^^-- iw^ Capitol J-ark. fort is soon built, and named Pontchartrain, in lienor of the French minister. Around the stockade gather settlements of the red men, their white breth-Soon the braveher perilous waythe wilderness,Oniaghira, andup the lakes tojoin him. A soon allied by firm ties toren from beyond the of the governor makesfor a thousand miles throughpast the great cataract of. MicJiigaii Central Station. civilized community is established and organized. Afternearly sixty years of slow but steady growth, Wolfe scales theheights of Quebec, and the drapeau blanche of St. Louis givesplace to the red cross of St. George. The Indians do nottake kindly to their new masters, and in a few years the greatchief Pontiac sweeps away in blood Michilimackinac and theother British outposts save Detroit, where Major Gladwin andhis little garrison heroically sustain a siege of fifteen with the Indians are frequent, but when the coloniesrevolt the British secure them as allies. At different timesDaniel Boone and Simon Kenton are brought captive from5 Kentucky. The brutal Governor Hamilton is captured atVincennes in 1779 by Colonel Clark, and sent a prisoner toVirginia; but the various expeditions against Detroit failof success, and it is not until 1796 that Captain Porter hoiststhe stars a
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