Summer in a private manner transported 26 pieces of small canon up the River for that purpose.
November, 1765.
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West. It was an irregular quadrangle, with houses, magazines, barracks, etc.,
defended with cannon.—See Pittman, Settlements on the Mississippi (London, 1770), pp. 45, 46. After its surrender by the French, the English garrisoned the
stronghold until 1772, when the river's erosion made it untenable. For the
present state of the ruins, see Mason, Chapters from Illinois History, pp. 241-249.
The French trading post sixty miles above Fort Chartres, on the western bank of the river, was the beginning of the present city of St. Louis, which was
founded in April, 1764, by Pierre Laclède. Upon the surrender of the Illinois
to the English, St. Ange, with the garrison and many French families, removed
to this new post, in the expectation of living under French authority. To their chagrin the place was surrendered to the Spanish the following year.—Ed.
