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French Minister to
La Jonquire and Bigot
(May 14, 1749)
French Miniser in: Wisconsin
Historical
Collections, XVIII, pp. 27-29.
p. 28.
Monsieur the Comte de La Galissoniere had also proposed that that commandant
(Detroit) be given authority over the posts of the Miamis, of the river Blanche
and of the Ouyatanons or nations of the Oabache,43
His Majesty has approved that suggestion, and the Monsieur the Marquis de
Lajonquiere may send them the necessary orders accordingly. In enclose his
commission as major.
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43 For these posts see Wis. Hist. Colls., xvii, p. 131. The "post of the river Blanche" has been identified by us (Ibid., p. 501) with Vincennes. We are now disposed, however, in view of later information, to change our opinion. There seems to have been a post about 1745-47 in the Iroquois-Miami village, on the Little Miamis, about nine miles above the Ohio. See Canadian Archives, 1905, p. 42; and Wis. Hist. Colls., xvii, pp. 458, 474, 475.-ED.
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