Identifier: northwestunderth00moor (find matches)
Title: The Northwest under three flags, 1635-1796
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Moore, Charles, 1855-1942
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Publisher: New York and London, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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al. The Iroquoiswere mingling with the Detroit Indians,and the only rem-edy was war. By selling all he possessed and giving hisIndians credit, he succeeded in getting the chief Onasketo take the war-path with a strong party of braves. Sovigorous was the chase that forty Iroquois, in order to es-cape their pursuers, jumped into a river and were drown-ed, thirty scalps and as many prisoners were taken, andfour or five hundred beaver-skins, which the Iroquois in-tended to exchange for English goods, were seized asbooty. This success put a stop to Iroquois advances un-til Cadillac was ready to meet them more than half way.1 1 On the return of this war party Cadillac opened ten kegs of bran-dy, and, when the missionaries remonstrated, he replied: If a littlehilarity grieve you so much, how will you be able to endure daily ex-posure of these neophytes to unlimited English rum and heresy ?—SeeN. T. Col. Doc.y vol. ix., p. 648 ; also, Parkmans Half Century of Con-flict, vol. i., chap. 2. 42
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CADILLAC FOUNDS DETROIT Even to a much duller mind than Cadillacs it wouldhave been clear that the place to check the advances ofthe Iroquois was not at Michilimackinac, but on theDetroit, through which narrow strait all travel and com-merce must pass on their way between the lower andthe upper lakes. This was also the key to the Missis-sippi region ; and Robert Livingston had already madeup his mind that if England should only seize and holdthe Detroit, the French fur-trade would be ruined- Con-fident that he could easily persuade his superiors of theabsolute necessity of occupying the strategic position atthe Detroit, and equally sure that he saw a fine openingto make a fortune, Cadillac went to Quebec and thereexplained his ideas to a distinguished company of trad-ers, headed by Callieres, the Governor, and Champigny,the Intendant. A more politic advocate would havesatisfied himself with presenting the military and com-mercial features of his plans, but the impetuous Cadillaclaid g

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