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Early Detroit
t was to prevent this, to command this channel of communication between the upper lakes and the Iroquois and the English, that in 1709 Louis XIV commanded Antoine De la Motte Cadillac to establish Fort Pontchartrain upon the Detroit, as a permanent post.
Cadillac, or De la Motte as he was usually called, was a native of Gascony, of noble birth, and had served in the army in France. He came when quite young to New France, and served as a captain in the army in Arcadia, then one of the most flourishing of the French colonies, and the cruel desolation of which by the English has been commemorated in immortal verse by the genius of Longfellow.
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