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Early Detroit
Mission stations, trading points and military posts were established at Mackinaw, on the St. Joseph, on the Illinois, at Green Bay, and on Lake Superior.
The English who had taken possession of the Atlantic coast, from Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras, had during the same time scarcely got beyond old ocean's roar. There was something in French character that peculiarly fitted them for this mission of opening up the new world to Christianity and civilization, and that made the toils, the adventures, the hardships, the
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