Part 72 (2/2)

1660 Rev M Menard with eight companions came to La Pointe, Lake Superior

1665 Claude Allouez, an eminent pioneer missionary, succeeded Menard, and re-established the mission at La Pointe

1669 Father Allouez established ait at Depere in 1671

1670 Father Allouez e of the Fox and Wisconsin rivers to within a short distance of the Mississippi--a near approach to the discovery of the Father of Waters

1671 In this year the French took formal possession of the whole Northwest, confirmed in 1689

1673 Louis Joliet, accompanied by Father James Marquette, discovered the Mississippi river

1674 Father Marquette coasted Lake Michigan, from Green Bay, by Milwaukee, to the site of the present city of Chicago

1679 The Griffin, a schooner built by La Salle, and the first to ara, arrived at the mouth of Green bay

Capt Duluth held a council, and concluded a peace with the natives of Lake Superior

1680 About the first of May Father Louis Hennepin arrived at Mille Lacs, as prisoner of a Dakotah war party, who captured him at Lake Pepin, while on his way up the Mississippi He remained at Mille Lacs severalreleased, he discovered the falls, which he named for his patron saint, Anthony of Padua His book, published after his return to Europe, is the first printed account of Minnesota

1683 Le Sueurand Wisconsin rivers to the Mississippi

1688 Nicholas Perrot first planted the cross and arms of France on the soil of Minnesota, and first laid formal claim to the country for France He built a fort on Lake Pepin, near Lake City

1695 Le Sueur built a fort on Isle Pelee, in the Mississippi, below Prescott

1700 Le Sueur established Fort L'Huillier, on the Blue Earth river (near the mouth of the Le Sueur), and first supplied the Sioux with firearny's battle with the Fox Indians at butte des Morts

1719 Francis Renalt explored the Upper Mississippi with two hundred miners

1721 Previous to this date a French fort had been established at Green Bay, on the present site of Fort Howard

1727 The French established a fort on Lake Pepin, with Sieur de Lapperriere as co post, called Fort Beauharnois, was established on the north side of Lake Pepin

1728 There was a great flood in the Mississippi, and Fort Beauharnois was subnery, from Mackinaw, punished the Foxes

1734 A battle took place between the French, and the Sacs and Foxes

1751 Sieur Marin, in command at Green Bay, made a peace with the Indians

1761 Capt Balfour and Lieut Gorrell, with English troops, took possession of Green Bay