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Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founds the trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit.
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Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac
French explorer in North America (1658–1730)
Antoine de la Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, born Antoine Laumet, was a French explorer and adventurer in New France, which stretched from Eastern Canada to Louisiana on the Gulf of Mexico. He rose from a modest beginning in Acadia in 1683 as an explorer, trapper, and a trader of…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit
French colonial fort in present-day Detroit, Michigan, US (1701–1796)
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…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Detroit
Largest city in Michigan, United States
Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is situated on the bank of the Detroit River across from the Canadian city of Windsor, Ontario. It is the 26th-most populous city in the United States and the largest U.S. city on the Canada–United States border…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)