Histories: Trempealeau Co. Historical Accounts:
"History of Trempealeau County Wisconsin, 1917":
Chapter 6:
Resources for the above information:
23 - Id., XVII, 269, 270.
24 - Ibid., 269-274.
"History of Trempealeau County Wisconsin, 1917":
Chapter 6:
St. Pierre
-As transcribed from page 56
-As transcribed from page 56
To
succeed Linctot in the post of the Sioux the governor-general of New
France chose Jacques Ie Gardeur, sieur de St. Pierre, sending him with
a party of twenty-two men to make their way to the upper Mississippi.
This small convoy reached its destination late in 1735, and early the
following spring St. Pierre determined to remove the post twenty-five
leagues (about sixty miles) higher up the Mississippi.23
There for a year they held a hostile tribe at bay, employing every
device of strategy and dissimulation and finally, on May 30, 1737,
abandoned the post with all its goods and belongings in order to save
their lives.24
Resources for the above information:
23 - Id., XVII, 269, 270.
24 - Ibid., 269-274.