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Early Detroit
and deserters from the French were employed to accompany the Iroquois on such an expedition, but nothing was accomplished.
It however aroused the vigilance of the Governor General, the Marquis de Denonville, who, in November, 1685, wrote to the Minister of the Marine and recommended that a military post be established on the Detroit, for the very purpose of preventing the English from getting access to Mackinaw and its rich fur trade. In June, 1686, having received orders to that effect from France, the governor wrote to M. Du Lhut, who,
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