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History

position upon the Fox river, which they fortified by three rows of palisades and a ditch. They have secured their women and children and prepared for a vigorous defense. Their entrenchment was so formidable that De Louvigny the French commander declined an assault, and invested the place in form. By regular approaches he gained a proper distance for mining their work and was preparing to blow up one of the curtains, when they proposed a capitulation. Terms were eventually offered and accepted; and those who survived the siege were preserved and liberated."* No further difficulties existed between the French traders and missionaries, and the Indians from that period down to the present time. How different would it probably have been had almost any other nation attempted to penetrate so far into the country of these "wild men of the woods"!

* Cass-His. & Scien. Sketches of Michigan p 22 -(1834)