Editing Vincennes, Indiana (section)

===New France===
The first trading post on the [[Wabash River]] was established by Sieur Juchereau, Lieutenant General of [[Montréal]].  With thirty-four [[Canadien]]s, he founded the company post on October 28, 1702, to trade for [[American Bison|Buffalo]] hides with [[Indigenous people of the Americas|American Indians]].  The exact location of Juchereau's trading post is not known, but because the [[Buffalo Trace (road)|Buffalo Trace]] crosses the Wabash at Vincennes, many believe it was here.  The post was a success; in the first two years, the traders collected over 13,000 buffalo hides.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Lasselle |first=Charles B |date=March 1906 |title=The Old Indian Traders of Indiana |journal=The Indiana Magazine of History |volume=II |issue=1 |page=3 |publisher=George S. Cottman |location=Indianapolis |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zpwKAAAAIAAJ |access-date=January 11, 2008 }}</ref>  When Juchereau died,{{when|date=April 2022}} the post was abandoned.{{citation needed|date=April 2022}}  The French-Canadian settlers left what they considered hostile territory for [[Old Mobile Site|Mobile]] (in present-day Alabama), then the capital of [[Louisiana (New France)|Louisiana]].

The oldest European town in Indiana, Vincennes was officially established in 1732 as a second [[France|French]] [[fur trading]] post in this area. The [[French Indies Company]] commissioned a French officer, [[François-Marie Bissot, Sieur de Vincennes]], to build a post along the Wabash River to discourage local nations from trading with the English.<ref>Derleth, p. 4.</ref> Vincennes founded the new trading post near the meeting points of the [[Wabash River|Wabash]] and [[White River (Indiana)|White]] rivers, and the overland [[Buffalo Trace (road)|Buffalo Trace]].<ref>Derleth, p. 8.</ref> Vincennes, who had lived with his father among the [[Miami tribe]], persuaded the [[Piankeshaw]] to establish a village at his trading post. He also encouraged Canadien settlers to move there, and started his own family to increase the village population.<ref>Derleth, p. 9.</ref> Because the Wabash post was so remote, however, Vincennes had a hard time getting trade supplies from Louisiana for the native nations, who were also being courted by English traders. The boundary between the French colonies of Louisiana and Canada, although inexact in the first years of the settlement, was decreed in 1745 to run between [[Fort Ouiatenon]] (below the site of modern-day [[Lafayette, Indiana]]) and Vincennes.<ref name="Ekberg-French Roots">{{cite book|last=Ekberg|first=Carl|title=French Roots in the Illinois Country: The Mississippi Frontier in Colonial Times|date=2000|publisher=University of Illinois Press|location=Urbana and Chicago, Ill.|isbn=978-0-252-06924-6|page=32|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NOdf3FRXms0C&pg=PA32|access-date=November 29, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160219152958/https://books.google.com/books?id=NOdf3FRXms0C&pg=PA32|archive-date=February 19, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1736, during the French war with the [[Chickasaw]] nation, Vincennes was captured and burned at the stake near the present-day town of [[Fulton, Mississippi]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Indiana Historical Society Publications|volume=VII|year=1923|chapter=Sieur de Vincennes Identified|first=Pierre-Georges|last=Roy|publisher=C. E. Pauley and Company|location=Indianapolis|pages=17–18|chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/sieurdevincennes71royp#page/16/mode/2up/search/burned|access-date=November 21, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160403030924/https://archive.org/stream/sieurdevincennes71royp#page/16/mode/2up/search/burned|archive-date=April 3, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> His settlement on the Wabash was renamed Poste Vincennes in his honor.

Louisiana governor [[Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville]], next appointed [[Louis Groston de Saint-Ange de Bellerive]] to command Poste Vincennes.

As the French colonists pushed north from Louisiana and south from Canada, however, the American colonists to the east continued to push west. In addition, British traders lured away many of Indians who had traded with the Canadiens. This competition escalated in the [[Ohio Country]] until 1754 and the eruption of the [[French and Indian War]] (the North American theater of the [[Seven Years' War]] between Britain and France.){{citation needed|date=November 2020}}