<Tr> <Th> Years of service </Th> <Td> 1675--1718 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Awards </Th> <Td> Order of Saint Louis Chevalier </Td> </Tr> <P> Antoine Laumet de la Mothe, sieur de Cadillac (/ ˈkædɪlæk /, French: (kadijak); March 5, 1658--October 16, 1730), usually referred to as Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac (also spelled Motte), was a French explorer and adventurer in New France which stretched from Eastern Canada to Louisiana on the Gulf of Mexico . He rose from a modest beginning in Acadia in 1683 as an explorer, trapper, and a trader of alcohol and furs, and he achieved various positions of political importance in the colony . He was the commander of Fort de Buade in St. Ignace, Michigan in 1694 . In 1701, he founded Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit which became the city of Detroit, which he commanded until 1710 . Between 1710 and 1716, he was the governor of Louisiana, although he did not arrive in that territory until 1713 . </P> <P> His knowledge of the coasts of New England and the Great Lakes area was appreciated by Frontenac, governor of New France, and Pontchartrain, Secretary of State for the Navy . This earned him various favors, including the Order of Saint Louis from King Louis XIV . The Jesuits in Canada, however, accused him of perverting the Indians with his alcohol trading, and he was imprisoned for a few months in Quebec in 1704, and again in the Bastille on his return to France in 1717 . </P>

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