French commander who in the summer of 1716 led 800 soldiers and Indians in an attack on the Meskwaki (Fox) stronghold at Little Lake Buttes des Mort on the Fox River (near modern Neenah). View more information in his report on that expedition,, in Wisconsin Historical Collections.

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[Source: Wyman, Mark. The Wisconsin Frontier (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998).]