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In 1749, during the reign of Louis XV, Celeron, commanding a detachment sent by the Marquis de La Gelissoniere, commandant-general of New France, buried a leaden plate at the mouth of the Chinodashhichetha near the Ohio River as a renewal of France’s claim to the Ohio River, all rivers flowing into it, and all lands on both sides as far as the sources of those rivers, asserting that preceding kings of France had enjoyed this possession and that it had been maintained by arms and by the treaties of Ryswick, Utrecht, and Aix-la-Chapelle.
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