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EARLY HISTORY OF WISCONSIN. 339
years after the fall of Qucbec, and that same year, or the next,
they must have removed to Rock Island, for BLACK HAWK says
he was born there in 1767.
The Foxes were another band of the Algonquin race, who
appeared to have been adventurers into the neighborhood of
Green Bay, prior to 1666, when inention is made of them in
that vicinity. I should infer from the account given of them
by BLACK HAWK as well as their general history, that their
aggressive habits had caused them, ns well as the Sauks, to be
driven from Canada; and the continuation of those habits had
drawn down upon them the vcngeance of their neighbors in
Wisconsin, till they were so reduced as to be unable longer to
defend themselves, and they associated with the Sauks, who$
were in the same plight, for mutual defence and protection.
As far back as 1706, according to CARVER, "the French mis-
sionaries and traders having received many insults from this
people, a party of French and Indians under the command of
Capt. MORAND, marched to revenge their ~vrongs." This ex-
pedition was in the wintcr. The Fox village was about fifty
miles up the river from Green Bay, and the tribe was almoat
annihilahed, and this probably paved the way for the alliance
with the Sauks, in 1760 or '61.
13ut there is some doubt whether the event spoken of by
CARVER went as far back as 1706. I-Ie got his information
from the Indians and traders, and is not definite himself but
says " about sixty years back from his time or visit to them."
And SHEA'S authorities speak of a French expedition against
the Foxes in 1714, after the Foxes, with others, had attacked
Detroit, which was in 1712. The probability is, that the at-
tack upon Detroit raised the ire of the French, and that DE
LOUVIGNEY was sent to Green Bay, in 1714, to chastise the
Foxes, but failing in the attempt, took up his winter quarters
at Green Bay, from which Capt. MORAND surprised and cut
them off at a moment they were not suspecting danger, and
thi~l probably is the event alluded to by CARVER. This would