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11, 1768 Pontiac, chief of the Ottawas, who was murdered at Cahokia, is buried at St. Louis, where he was a guest of St. Ange......1769 Blanchette, surnamed The Hunter, builds a log-hut on hills now occupied by the city of St. Charles, and establishes a military post under the governor of upper Louisiana......1769 Lieut.-Gov. Don Pedro Piernas arrives at St. Louis to assume the Spanish authority over upper Louisiana......1770 Francisco Crozat succeeds Piernas......1775 Don Ferdinando Leyba appointed governor to succeed Crozat......1778 Massacre of whites near St. Louis by Indians who, led by British, intended a general attack on the settlement, but were repulsed......May 26, 1780 Leyba removed and Francisco Crozat reinstated. Under his government St. Louis was regularly fortified......1780 Old St. Genevieve, which tradition says was founded by settlers from Kaskaskia in 1735, is destroyed by a flood, the inhabitants remove from river bottoms to the present sit