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After the defeat of the French in North America, Langlade became allied with the British, who took control of former French possessions and took the lead in the fur trade in the upper West. During the American Revolutionary War, Langlade led Great Lakes Indians for the British against rebel colonists and their Indian allies. The Native ...
French India, formally the Établissements français dans l'Inde [a] (English: French Settlements in India), was a French colony comprising five geographically separated enclaves on the Indian subcontinent that had initially been factories of the French East India Company.
Bourgmont, a fugitive from justice, became a coureur des bois for several years during his early career.. Étienne de Veniard, Sieur de Bourgmont (April 1679 – 1734) was a French explorer who documented his travels on the Missouri and Platte rivers in North America and made the first European maps of these areas in the early 18th century.
Pages in category "French people of Indian descent" The following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Taken during the cultural assimilation of Native Americans while also popularizing the Vanishing Indian stereotype. [s 1] [s 3] The Flatiron: 1904 Edward Steichen: New York City, United States Blue-green pigment gum bichromate over platinum print [s 2] The Pond—Moonlight: 1904 Edward Steichen: Mamaroneck, New York, United States
From the Saint Lawrence to the Mississippi, cosmopolitan French communities accommodated Indians and Blacks. [9] During the American War of Independence and the onset of the Franco-American alliance, the French would again combine with Indian troops, as in the Battle of Kiekonga in 1780 under Augustin de La Balme. [10]
The Schenectady massacre was an attack against the colonial settlement of Schenectady in the English Province of New York on February 8, 1690. A raiding party of 114 French soldiers and militiamen, accompanied by 96 allied Mohawk and Algonquin warriors, attacked the unguarded community, destroying most of the homes, and killing or capturing most of its inhabitants.
The editors of American Heritage Magazine writing in the American Heritage Book of Indians suggested the French visitors encountered the Wenro people shortly after they had lost an internecine war, probably with the Senecas, accounting for the relatively small size of their territory, [2] as they were on fair terms with the Erie [2] and good ...