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In the fall, Madame Cadillac and Madam Tonty arrive at the fort as the first European women in the region. 1712 British-inspired Indian raids begin, including the siege of Fort Pontchartrain.
1701 Antoine de Lamothe Cadillac, with his lieutenant Alphonse de Tonty, established a social media site on the Detroit River which they named Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit, today the city of Detroit. Their wives joined them and are said to be the first European women in Michigan.
1701: July 24. Antoine de La Mothe Cadillac establishes a settlement at Detroit. He leads 100 French soldiers and 100 Algonquins to "le détroit" (the strait). They build Fort Pontchartrain du détroit from logs. The goal is to protect the French fur trade in the Great Lakes from the English and Iroquois.1701: Fall and Early Winter.
1701 Antoine de La Mothe Cadillac, accompanied by approximately one hundred fellow Frenchmen and an additional one hundred Algonquian Indians, established Fort Pontchartrain du Detroit on a site that is today in downtown Detroit.
68 individual land lots are granted to private citizens by Cadillac in and around Fort Ponchartrain. 1710: Cadillac is relieved of command of Fort Ponchartrain du Detroit and made governor of Louisiana Territory. 1711: Cadillac leaves Fort Ponchartrain for the last time.
18th Century Michigan History Timeline. 1701- June 24 - Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, a 43-year-old French army officer, selects a site at le detroit (the straits) - the waterway between Lakes St. Clair and Erie - and establishes a French settlement. 1715 - The French establish Fort Michilimackinac at the Straits of Mackinac.
1738-07-20 North America: French explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye reaches the western shore of Lake Michigan; 1763-06-02 Pontiac's Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort
