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Built about 1715, this fort put French soldiers at the Straits for the first time since 1701. French authority ceased in 1761 when British troops entered the fort. On June 2, 1763, during Pontiac's uprising, Chippewa Indians seized the fort, killing most of the small force, and held it a year. When the British moved to Mackinac Island in 1781, the old fort soon reverted to the wilderness.
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Mackinaw City, Michigan · United States
