• Thumbnail for Fort Michilimackinac
    Fort Michilimackinac was an 18th-century French, and later British, fort and trading post at the Straits of Mackinac; it was built on the northern tip...
    13 KB (1,146 words) - 21:03, 20 November 2024
  • Michilimackinac (/ˌmɪʃələˈmækənɔː/ MISH-ə-lə-MAK-ə-naw) is derived from an Ottawa Ojibwe name for present-day Mackinac Island and the region around the...
    15 KB (1,088 words) - 11:43, 28 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mackinaw City, Michigan
    Mackinaw City area is home to a number of historic sites, including Fort Michilimackinac, Historic Mill Creek State Park, Old Mackinac Point Light, McGulpin...
    28 KB (2,857 words) - 18:22, 14 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fort Mackinac
    1895, the fort has been adapted as a museum on the grounds of Mackinac Island State Park. Before 1763, the French used Fort Michilimackinac on the mainland...
    22 KB (2,757 words) - 05:03, 5 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Straits of Mackinac
    Fort Michilimackinac was built by the French on the south end of the straits' narrow. Michilimackinac was replaced in 1781 by a British fort, Fort Mackinac...
    15 KB (1,416 words) - 10:18, 23 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fort Michilimackinac State Park
    Fort Michilimackinac State Park is a state park in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is located in Mackinaw City along the Straits of Mackinac. The park contains...
    6 KB (590 words) - 15:26, 7 November 2022
  • Thumbnail for List of military installations in Michigan
    List of military installations in Michigan (category Forts in Michigan)
    1779, when it was replaced by Fort Lernoult Fort St. Philippe de Michilimackinac, (commonly called Fort Michilimackinac), at the Straits of Mackinac,...
    8 KB (945 words) - 19:34, 21 May 2022
  • Thumbnail for Fort de Buade
    Lakes and traded at Michilimackinac. This, and the outbreak of war between England and France in 1689, led to the construction of Fort de Buade in 1690 by...
    9 KB (1,126 words) - 01:35, 13 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Northern Michigan
    new site on the northern tip of the lower peninsula and called it Fort Michilimackinac. This location became the new locus for fur and other trade, and...
    172 KB (17,003 words) - 05:24, 5 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Charles Michel de Langlade
    helped defend Fort Duquesne (Pittsburgh) against the British. The French appointed Langlade as second in command at Fort Michilimackinac and a captain...
    9 KB (954 words) - 17:15, 29 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Wawatam
    Alexander Henry the elder from the Ojibwas following the capture of Fort Michilimackinac in June 1763 during Pontiac's Rebellion. Wawatam, the leader and...
    4 KB (432 words) - 00:51, 18 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pontiac's War
    given by God to the Indians." When the first Englishman reached Fort Michilimackinac, Ojibwe chief Minavavana told him "Englishman, although you have...
    59 KB (7,515 words) - 16:59, 21 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Alexander Henry the elder
    procured a quantity of goods" and set out on the Ottawa River to Fort Michilimackinac. As he was "altogether a stranger to the commerce in which (he) was...
    24 KB (3,217 words) - 17:04, 29 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Trading post
    Trading post (redirect from Trading fort)
    New York Stock Exchange. Fort Vancouver Fort Edmonton Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site Fort Michilimackinac Fort William, Ontario Tadoussac...
    9 KB (1,074 words) - 16:28, 29 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wawatam Township, Michigan
    British trader Alexander Henry the elder from the Ojibwas' capture of Fort Michilimackinac in 1763. Mackinaw City is a village located at 45°47′02″N 84°43′40″W...
    6 KB (552 words) - 00:30, 29 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fort Saint Charles
    French-Canadian voyageurs. They were headed for Fort Michilimackinac. They had traveled only a few kilometres from the fort when they were attacked by Sioux, who...
    8 KB (944 words) - 04:35, 13 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Henri de Tonti
    ship to sail the Great Lakes. In August 1679, De Tonti arrived at Fort Michilimackinac, the crossroads for southwestern fur trade, in which he discovered...
    17 KB (1,749 words) - 19:36, 28 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sainte Anne Church (Mackinac Island)
    date back to 1695. After moving from Fort de Buade to Fort Michilimackinac about 1708 and from Fort Michilimackinac to Mackinac Island in 1781, the parish...
    10 KB (844 words) - 05:32, 5 November 2024
  • half of the novel covers Rogers' later life in London, England, and Fort Michilimackinac, Michigan. Roberts' decision to cover the novel's material in two...
    15 KB (2,230 words) - 16:14, 13 January 2023
  • Thumbnail for 8th (The King's) Regiment of Foot
    officially ended the war and placed Fort Niagara, Fort Detroit, Fort Michilimackinac, Fort Oswegatchie and Fort Haldimand in American territory. Due...
    56 KB (6,779 words) - 01:17, 20 November 2024
  • Calumet City of Milwaukee Meadow Brook Hall Cranbrook Durant-Dort Co. Fort Michilimackinac Grand Hotel Mackinac Island Hemingway Cottage Highland Park Ford Plant...
    58 KB (1,749 words) - 03:15, 22 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lake Michigan
    the town of Mackinaw City, Michigan, the site of Fort Michilimackinac (a reconstructed French fort founded in 1715); on the northern side is St. Ignace...
    55 KB (5,276 words) - 04:03, 5 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for McGulpin House
    that several private frontier houses were built in the vicinity of Fort Michilimackinac in the period between 1763 and 1780, which were prosperous years...
    5 KB (566 words) - 00:43, 8 August 2023
  • mineral Michilimackinac, a former term for the entire region around the Straits of Mackinac Fort Michilimackinac, a French, later British, fort and trading...
    4 KB (591 words) - 13:40, 27 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fort St. Joseph (Ontario)
    Lieutenant Porter Hanks, commander of Fort Michilimackinac, was unprepared for an attack and Fort Michilimackinac was severely under-manned. Before Lieutenant...
    8 KB (951 words) - 02:25, 7 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jean Baptiste Point du Sable
    Arent DePeyster, British commandant from 1774 to 1779 at Fort Michilimackinac (a former French fort in what was then the British province of Quebec), noted...
    41 KB (4,585 words) - 16:20, 6 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rum
    Journal: A True Account of Violence At Fort Michilimackinac Written in 1769 - 1772. Lansing, Michigan: The Fort Mackinac Division Press. Frost, Doug (6...
    48 KB (5,992 words) - 20:58, 11 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Illinois Country
    formed United States. Fort Crevecoeur was first founded in 1680. Another fort, often called Fort Pimiteoui, and later Old Fort Peoria, was established...
    39 KB (4,600 words) - 21:43, 24 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fort Frontenac
    cannon-fire long. The fort's strategic significance gradually decreased. Other forts such as Fort Niagara, Fort Detroit, and Fort Michilimackinac became more important...
    24 KB (2,986 words) - 22:13, 25 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Emmet County, Michigan
    British took control of Fort Michilimackinac in 1761 and continued to use it as a trading post. In 1763, Ojibwe warriors took the fort as a part of Pontiac's...
    35 KB (3,367 words) - 06:23, 21 November 2024