To insure the friendship of the Six Nations, Galissoniere, governor of
Canada, in 1754 established an Indian mission on the southern bank of the
St. Lawrence.
For this work the
Abbe Francis Piquet was chosen, and he selected the mouth of the
Oswegatchie for the station, on the site of
Ogdensburg, where he hoped to draw in so many
Iroquois converts as would bind all their kindred to the
French alliance.
By order of
General Brown a redoubt was begun in 1812 at the site of old Fort Presentation, which was not finished when
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Ogdensburg was attacked the second time by the
British in 1813.
See
Ogdensburg.
