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This Day in Minnesota History

January 6, 1736

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ISBN: 0873514165
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Twenty-one French soldiers and voyageurs are killed in a fight with an allied group of Dakota, Ojibwe, and Teton Lakota on an island in the Lake of the Woods. The men were part of a post set up by Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye.

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First published: July 1, 2015
Last modified: June 6, 2022