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... founded in 1701 by a French trader, Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac (1658–1730). He built a fort on the river and called it Fort Pontchartrain‐du‐Détroit after his patron, Comte de Pontchartrain, minister of state to Louis XIV, King of France (1643–1715), to which he added détroit ‘strait ...

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