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Early Detroit
ively commanded by some of the ablest of the enterprising officers, who, having been trained in that army which had fought under Conde and Turenne, in old France, had sought a larger and wider field of adventure and prowess in the new world, under the banner of New France. At the time De la Motte took command at Mackinaw, there was a fine fort of pickets, manned by two hundred picked and well-disciplined men, consisting of the best formed and most warlike soldiers of the new world. There were about sixty houses built upon either side of a pleasant, straight street.
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