Fox Wars were two conflicts between the French and the Fox Indians that lived in the Great Lakes region from 1712 to 1733.
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15 Facts About Fox Wars
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The Wars exemplified colonial warfare in the transitional space of New France, occurring within the complex system of alliances and enmities with native peoples and colonial plans for expansion.
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Wars claimed thousands of lives and initiated a slave trade whereby Fox Indians were captured by native allies of New France and then sold as slaves to the French colonial population.
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The Second Fox Wars War was far more destructive than the first, and ended with the near annihilation of the Fox Wars population.
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Fox Wars Indians were living in eastern Wisconsin at the time of their first contacts with the French around 1670.
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Jacques-Charles Renaud Dubuisson, who wanted the Fox Wars removed from their village, had ordered these reinforcements.
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Several days later, another parley occurred, as the Fox Wars tried to seek protection for the women and children.
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Fox Wars, the start and the potential end to their conflict lay in the slave trade.
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The Fox Wars were still willing to return to the French alliance if they could secure the return of their captives.
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The Sauk and Fox Wars fought off the French with the help of western Indians, who were aware of Beauharnois' plan for decimation.
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Financial situation of the colony before the first Fox Wars War was a state of semi-bankruptcy.
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Fox Wars facilitated the entry of Fox slaves into colonial New France in two ways: as spoils of French military officers or through direct trading.
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Yet, long after the conflicts, Fox Wars slaves worked in domestic service, unskilled labour and fieldwork, among other tasks throughout New France.
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The French desire for slaves would lead the Fox Wars into conducting more slave raids, and increasing tension between Native groups.
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