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ANTOINE DE LA MOTHE CADILLAC

Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac was a French noble. He was born in 1660 and died in 1717. In 1694 Frontenac appointed him commander of the Michilimackinac. On the 24th of July 1701 with fifty soldiers and fifty settlers he founded Detroit. In 1707 he reduced the Miamis to subjection and in 1711 he was made governor of Louisiana and in 1714 he established a post in the Natchez country before returning to France in 1717.
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