Lives of Fort de Chartres : Commandants, Soldiers, and Civilians in French Illinois, 1720-1770 /
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
2016.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. French Illinois
- The land
- The native peoples
- The settlers
- The slaves
- The French settlements
- The administration: military and civilian
- The four Forts de Chartres
- The convoys
- The end of French Illinois
- Part II. Commandants of Fort de Chartres
- First commandment: Pierre-Sidrac Dugue de Boisbriand (1718-24)
- Second and fifth commandant: Claude-Charles Dutisne (1724-25, 1729-30)
- Third commandant: Jean-Charles de Pradel (interim 1725)
- Fourth commandant: Pierre-Charles Desliette (1725-29)
- Sixth commandant: Robert Groston de St. Ange (1730-33)
- Seventh commandant: Pierre d'Artaguiette d'Itouralde (1733-36)
- Eighth commandant: Alphonse de la Buissonniere (1736-40)
- Ninth and eleventh commandant: Jean-Baptiste Benoist de St. Clair (1740-42, 1749-51)
- Tenth commandant: Jean-Gaspard de Bertet de la Clue (1742-49)
- Twelfth commandant: Jean-Jacques de Macarty Mactique (1751-60)
- Thirteenth commandant: Pierre-Joseph Neyon de Villiers (1760-63)
- Fourteenth and last French commandant: Louis Groston de St. Ange de Bellerive (1764-65)
- Part III. People of Fort de Chartres
- Marie Rouensa: the mother of French Illinois
- Étienne de Veniard de Bourgmont and Ignon Ouaconisen (Françoise Missouri): an Indian in Paris
- Terrisse de Ternan: a restless and worrisome personality
- Claude Chetivau: the man who wanted to go to Canada
- (François- ) Pierre Boucher de Boucherville: escape to Fort de Chartres
- Alphonse de la Buissonniere and Marie Therese Trudeau: marriage woes
- Jacques-Sernan Voisin: a hero of the Chickasaw wars?
- Jean Ducoutray: the chicken thief of Kaskaskia
- Jean-Bernard Bossu: officer and travel writer
- Philippe-François de Rastel de Rocheblave: a man of many flags.