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Cadillac and his men reached the Detroit River on July 23, 1701. The following day, July 24, 1701, the group traveled north on the Detroit River and chose a place to build the settlement. Cadillac named the settlement Fort Ponchartrain du Detroit in honor of King Louis's Minister of Marine.
Antoine de la Mothe, sieur de Cadillac ( / ˈkædɪlæk /, French: [kadijak]; March 5, 1658 – October 16, 1730), born Antoine Laumet, was a French explorer and adventurer in New France, which stretched from Eastern Canada to Louisiana on the Gulf of Mexico.
In 1701 Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founded the site that would become the city of Detroit. He was born Antoine Laumet on March 5, 1658 in southern France. At the age of 25, he arrived in the New World and, as a coastal trader, soon became an expert on the continent’s Atlantic coast.
Antoine de La Mothe Cadillac establishes a settlement at Detroit. He leads 100 French soldiers and 100 Algonquins to "le détroit" (the strait). They build Fort Pontchartrain du détroit from logs. The goal is to protect the French fur trade in the Great Lakes from the English and Iroquois. 1701: Fall and Early Winter.
The site that was to become the city of Detroit was established on July 24, 1701 by Antoine de la mothe Cadillac, a French military leader and trader. Cadillac had traveled widely in New France and the western Great Lakes and was the commander of Fort Michilimackinac at the junction of Lakes Huron and Michigan.
Many others know Cadillac as a brand of car. But why was it named Cadillac and why is that name associated with Maine, Detroit, Louisiana, or the Bastille prison in Paris, France? The French explorer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac is the answer to all these questions. Early History
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Antoine Laumet de La Mothe Cadillac (born March 5, 1658, Les Laumets, Fr.—died Oct. 15, 1730, Castelsarrasin) was a French soldier, explorer, and administrator in French North America, founder of the city of Detroit (1701), and governor of Louisiana (1710 to 1716 or 1717).
