Alphonse de Tonty, French-American sailor and explorer (born 1659)

Alphonse de Tonty

Italian-French explorer in North America (c. 1659–1727)

Pierre Alphonse de Tonty, Alfonso de Tonti, or Alphonse de Tonty, Baron de Paludy was an officer who served under the French explorer Cadillac and helped establish the first European settlement at Detroit, Michigan, Fort Pontchartrain du Detroit on the Detroit River in 1701.…