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Letter to Pontchartrain
(Fort Louis, June 15, 1715)
Bienville, Jean Baptiste le Moyne, Sieur de in:
(AC, C13, Gen. Corr. Louisiana, vol. V, pp. 339-344)
and in Mississippi Provincial Archives,
vol. III, pp. 181-184.
p. 183.
. . . The English also intend to build a fort at the Wabash and to keep a storehouse there in order to make secure for themselves the trade with the Canadians, voyageurs and Indians. . . .
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