Henri de tonti biography sample
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| Henri de Tonti | |
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| Portrait attributed to Nicolaes Maes, History Museum of Mobile | |
| Governor of Fort St. Louis, Illinois | |
In office 1685–1702 | |
| Monarch | Louis XIV of France |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Enrico Tonti c. 1649 Gaeta, Sicily (present-day Italy) |
| Died | September 1704 (aged c. 55) Fort Louis, Louisiana (present-day Mobile County, Alabama) |
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| Military service | |
| Nickname(s) | "Iron Hand" |
| Allegiance | Kingdom of France |
| Years of service | c. 1668–1676 |
| Rank | Captain |
| Battles/wars | Franco-Dutch War |
Henri de Tonti (néEnrico Tonti; c. 1649 – September 1704), also spelled Henri de Tonty, was a Frenchmilitary officer, explorer, and voyageur who assisted René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, with North American exploration and colonization from 1678 to 1686.[1] De Tonti was one of the first explorers to
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The Lost Tribe of Western New York
By the summer of 1679, René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle had approached his wit’s end. His faithful lieutenant, the Neapolitan Henri de Tonti, had already repulsed one attempt bygd the Seneca to burn La Salle’s soon-to-be sailing ship Le Griffon. A year earlier, in hopes to attain a promise of peace, La Salle had travelled seventy-five miles east to the Seneca village of Ganondagan, located on present-day Boughton Hill, just outside of the by of Victor, about 20 miles south of Rochester.1 Peace was promised, but as the attempted arson proved, wasn’t necessarily guaranteed. So, ahead of schedule, on August 7, 1679, La Salle gave the order to weigh anchor and commanded twelve burly sailors to grab tow-lines and walk Le Griffon from the shallow ten-foot waters of Squaw Island, through the rushing rapids of the Niagara River and, with the help of a much hoped for northeast breeze, into the calm waters of what his native tongue called • Italian-born French military officer and explorer (1649–1704) Henri de Tonti (born Enrico Tonti; c. 1649 – September 1704) was an Italian-born French military officer and explorer who assisted René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle during the French colonization of the Americas from 1678 to 1686.[2] de Tonti was one of the first explorers to navigate and sail the upper Great Lakes. He also sailed the Illinois and the Mississippi, to its mouth and thereupon claimed the length of the Mississippi for Louis XIV of France.[3] He is credited with founding the settlement that would become Peoria, Illinois. De Tonti established the first permanent European settlement in the lower Mississippi valley, known as Poste de Arkansea, making him "The Father of Arkansas".[4][5] Henri de Tonti was born in Gaeta, c. 1649, to Lorenzo and Isabelle (née di Lietto) de Tonti.[4] Henri de Tonti
Early life and military service
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