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Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit or Fort Detroit (1701–1796) was a French and later British fortification established in 1701 on the north side of the Detroit River by Antoine Laumet de Lamothe Cadillac. A settlement based on the fur trade, farming and missionary work slowly developed in the area.
The stamp's background design depicts Detroit's skyline as it appeared in 1951 and the foreground shows Cadillac's landing at Detroit in 1701. [12] A museum in his birthplace opened in 1974, conceived of and funded by historians in Detroit. [13] On April 20, 2016, the public French high school in Windsor, Ontario, was renamed in Cadillac's ...
Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit, built in 1701, replaced Fort de Buade, turned over by the French to Britain in 1760 who used it until 1779, when it was replaced by Fort Lernoult Fort St. Philippe de Michilimackinac , (commonly called Fort Michilimackinac), at the Straits of Mackinac, built 1715 during the Fox Wars , turned over by the French to ...
The French had a smaller population base and attracted fewer families. During the French and Indian War (1756–1763), the French reinforced and improved Fort Detroit (which had been constructed in 1701) along the Detroit River between 1758 and 1760. It was subject to repeated attacks by British and colonial forces combined with their Indian ...
Fort Ponchartrain du Détroit: 1701: Detroit Michigan: Fort Détour à l'Anglais: 1722 Belle Chase Louisiana: Fort Duquesne: 1750: Morrison County Minnesota: Fort Duquesne: 1754: Pittsburgh Pennsylvania: Fort Dubreuil (Côte des Allemands) 1740 Destrehan Louisiana: Fort St. Jean: 1708 New Orleans Louisiana: Fort Kaskaskia: 1759: Kaskaskia Illinois
The French exercised control from widely separate posts in the region, which they claimed as New France; among these was the post at Fort Detroit, founded in 1701. France ceded the territory to the Kingdom of Great Britain as part of the Indian Reserve in the 1763 Treaty of Paris, after being defeated in the French and Indian War.
The Indians took their captives to Detroit, where they were tortured and mutilated. The bodies were then tossed into the river to float by Fort Detroit, which undermined morale in the fort. The detachment of small boats led by a Lieutenant Cuyler, stopped by the mouth of the Detroit River on the North shore to make camp when they were ambushed. [2]
After the Peace Conference of 1701, Antoine de Lamothe Cadillac resolved the trade issue by establishing a new fort, Fort Pontchartrain, at Detroit. This location was strategic, as it allowed access to the water trade routes, which were more accessible than Montreal, and the warpaths of the Great Lakes region.