Vicinity of Vincennes Indiana was inhabited for thousands of years by different cultures of indigenous peoples.
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19 Facts About Vincennes Indiana
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Oldest European town in Indiana, Vincennes was officially established in 1732 as a second French fur trading post in this area.
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The Compagnie des Indes commissioned a French officer, Francois-Marie Bissot, Sieur de Vincennes Indiana, to build a post along the Wabash River to discourage local nations from trading with the English.
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Vincennes Indiana founded the new trading post near the meeting points of the Wabash and White rivers, and the overland Buffalo Trace.
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Vincennes Indiana, who had lived with his father among the Miami tribe, persuaded the Piankeshaw to establish a village at his trading post.
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Vincennes Indiana encouraged Canadien settlers to move there, and started his own family to increase the village population.
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In 1736, during the French war with the Chickasaw nation, Vincennes Indiana was captured and burned at the stake near the present-day town of Fulton, Mississippi.
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Vincennes Indiana took a census of the settlement, built up the fort, and renamed it Fort Sackville.
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In 1770 and 1772, Thomas Gage, the commander in chief of Britain's North American forces, received warnings that the residents of Vincennes Indiana were agitating against the Crown, and were inciting native tribes along the river trade routes to attack British traders.
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In 1778, residents at Poste Vincennes Indiana received word of the French alliance with the American Second Continental Congress from Father Pierre Gibault and Dr Jean Laffont.
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Vincennes Indiana remained an isolated town, difficult to supply due to its position deep within Indian territory.
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Secure transport to and from Vincennes Indiana meant travelling with a large, armed party, whether over land or via the Wabash River.
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Vincennes Indiana was no longer considered a trading outpost, but a thriving city.
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Slavery was practiced in the 16th century, when the present-day state of Vincennes Indiana was part of New France, by the French and Native Americans.
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Polly Strong, an enslaved woman of Vincennes Indiana, was the plaintiff in a case that argued that she should be free.
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Vincennes Indiana won her freedom on November 6,1821, when the Indiana Supreme Court ruled that servitude violated the state's 1816 Constitution.
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Vincennes Indiana has a humid continental climate with hot summers and cold winters with heavy rainfall at times throughout much of the year.
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Revolutionary War battle at Vincennes Indiana was featured in the 1901 novel Alice of Old Vincennes Indiana by Maurice Thompson.
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The first Vincennes Indiana was an 18-gun sloop-of-war commissioned in 1826 and sold in 1867.
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