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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Minnesota, (search)
beginning of the French furtrade which afterwards interfered with the Hudson Bay Company. To secure this trade, which the English were grasping, Daniel Greysolon du Luth, a native of Lyons, left Quebec in September, 1678, with twenty men, and entered Minnesota. The next year Father Hennepin and two others, who were a part of La Salle's expedition, penetrated the country far above the falls of St. Anthony. The territory was formally taken possession of in the name of the French monarch, by Perrot and his associates, in 1689. They built a fort on the west shore of Lake Pepin; and Le Seur built another fort, in 1695, on an island in the Mississippi, just below the mouth of the St. Croix River, after which the fur-traders flocked into that region. In 1763, Jonathan Carver visited Minnesota and published a description of the country. In 1800, a part of Minnesota lying west of the Mississippi was included in the Territory of Indiana. The purchase of Louisiana, in 1803, gave the Unit
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Minnesota, (search)
ds a trading-post at the entrance of Pigeon River, on north shore of Lake Superior (whence the name Duluth)......1678 Father Louis Hennepin ascends the Mississippi from the mouth of the Illinois, passes through Lake Pepin, and reaches the falls, which he names St. Anthony......October, 1680 Sieur du Luth, with four Frenchmen and an Indian, in two canoes, from his trading-post reaches a lake whose outlet enters the Mississippi, and on the river he meets Father Hennepin......1680 Nicholas Perrot erects a fort on Lake Pepin, and takes possession of the Minnesota country in the name of the King of France......May 8, 1689 Le Seur builds a trading-post on an island in the Mississippi, just above Lake Pepin......1695 Sieur le Seur, on a search for mines in Minnesota, builds Fort l'huillier on the St. Pierre, now the Minnesota......October, 1700 Jonathan Carver, the first British explorer of Minnesota, arrives at Mackinaw from Massachusetts, August, 1766; Green Bay, Wis., Se
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ohio, (search)
ubt sound, is reached by cautious criticism of fragmentary documents.] France takes formal possession of the Northwest from the mouth of the great river on the eastern side, otherwise called the Ohio ......1671 Joliet indicates the Ohio country on his map of the Northwest......1674 La Salle launches the Griffin on Lake Erie and coasts along the northern frontier of Ohio......August, 1679 Iroquois convey Western lands east of the Illinois to the English by treaty......1684 Nicholas Perrot, with twenty Frenchmen, marches into the Miami country; French establish a post near the Ohio boundary......1686 English traders crossing the Ohio country are arrested by the French......1687 Treaty of Ryswick, by which France claims the Ohio Valley......September, 1697 French erect a trading-post near the mouth of the Maumee......1705 Governor Spotwood, of Virginia, urges the English government to occupy the valley of the Ohio......1709 Vaudreuil, governor of Canada, op
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wisconsin, (search)
the site of Chicago......Dec. 4, 1674 La Salle, leaving his ship the Griffin at Green Bay, sails up the coast of Lake Michigan......1679 Daniel Greysolon Duluth ascends the Bois Brule from Lake Superior, and descends the St. Croix to the Mississippi River......1680 Father Louis Hennepin, with Duluth, journeys from Lake St. Francis to Green Bay by way of the Wisconsin and Fox rivers......1680 Pierre le Seuer reaches the Mississippi River via the Fox and Wisconsin......1683 Nicholas Perrot, appointed commandant of the West, winters near Trempeleau, which he reaches via the Fox and Wisconsin rivers from Green Bay......1685 Father St. Cosme visits site of Milwaukee on his way by boat from Green Bay to the Mississippi River......Oct. 7, 1699 Le Seuer discovers lead mines in southwestern Wisconsin......1700 Marin, the French leader, sent by the Quebec government, attacks the Fox Indians at Winnebago Rapids (Neenah)......winter of 1706-7 De Louvigny, sent to destro