Lieut. James Gorrell's journal. Commencing at Detroit, September 8th, 1761, and ending at Montreal, August 13th, 1763.
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- 1761-1763
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After the British defeated the French in 1760, they took possession of the French forts throughout Canada. Lt. James Gorrell was sent out to Green Bay in 1761 with a small garrison of British soldiers to occupy Fort La Baye. This is his journal of that assignment, the earliest English-language eyewitness account of Wisconsin. Two years later Pontiac successfully organized the western tribes to resist the British, captured Fort Mackinaw in a brilliant sneak attack, and laid siege to Detroit. Gorrell was forced to evacuate all the way back to Montreal, and Green Bay saw no more British soldiers until the War of 1812
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Gorrell, James
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- Recollection Wisconsin
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- Wisconsin Historical Society
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Annual report and collections of the State Historical Society, of Wisconsin, for the year 1854 - Publisher
- State Historical Society of Wisconsin
- Subjects
- British Americans
Native Americans
Tobacco
Rites and ceremonies
Islands
Lakes
Canoes and canoeing
Fur trade
Firearms
War
Weapons
Fox
Ho-Chunk
Illinois
Iowa
Menominee
Ojibwe
Ottawa
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- text
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- English
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- Gorrell, James. Lieut. James Gorrell's journal. Commencing at Detroit, September 8th, 1761, and ending at Montreal, August 13th, 1763.. 1761-1763. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/tp/id/39643. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
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- Gorrell, James, (1761-1763) Lieut. James Gorrell's journal. Commencing at Detroit, September 8th, 1761, and ending at Montreal, August 13th, 1763.. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/tp/id/39643
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- Gorrell, James. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/tp/id/39643>.