the British lieutenant who commanded the first garrison at Green Bay after the defeat of the French in 1760; his troops retreated during Pontiac's war of resistance in 1763.

The Wisconsin Historical Society has manuscripts related to this topic. See the catalog description of the James Gorrell Journal for details.

View Gorrell's journal at Wisconsin Historical Collections.

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[Source: Gorrell's journal and Augustin Grignon's "Seventy-two years' recollections of Wisconsin" at Turning Points in Wis. History (www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/).]