Bacqueville de la Potherie

Bacqueville de la Potherie, also known as Claude-Charles Le Roy, was a French chronicler of New France.

Histoire de l'Amérique septentrionale

His most famous work is Histoire de I'Amérique septentrionale, an account of French expeditions to the Great Lakes and Mississippi region in the late 17th century. This book was written in 1702 but not published until 1722.[1][2]

References
  1. "Between 1640 and 1660: Tribes and Tribal Wars about Green Bay - Turning Points in Wisconsin History - Wisconsin Historical Society". wisconsinhistory.org.
  2. William Nelson Fenton, The Great Law and the Longhouse: a political history of the Iroquois Confederacy (University of Oklahoma Press, 1988), 331

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