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Article: Defining Detroit: automobiles, music and turbulence in Motown.(Detroit, Mich.)
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- National Petroleum News
- Article date:
- March 1, 2005
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IN JULY 1701, A NEW SETTLEMENT WAS founded by Antoine de Lamothe Cadillac after he received permission for its establishment from the French King, Louis XIV. The settlement was named Fort Pontchartrain du Detroit in honor of the Count of Pontchartrain, the Royal Minister of Marine, according to the Web site www.historydetroit.com.
The years following its settlement were chaotic. The territory was in a fairly constant state of defeat, with the end result of each conflict being a new ruling power. In 1796, the American government gained control that had already been agreed upon 13 years earlier in a treaty that was signed at the end of the American Revolutionary ...