[335] _Louvigny au Ministre, 14 Octobre, 1716._ Louvigny's account of the Outagamie defences is short, and not very clear. La Mothe-Cadillac, describing similar works at Michilimackinac, says that the palisades of the innermost row alone were set close together, those of the two other rows being separated by spaces of six inches or more, through which the defenders fired from their loopholes. The plan seems borrowed from the Iroquois. [336] _Depeche de Vaudreuil, 14 Octobre, 1716._ [337] _Vaudreuil au Conseil de Marine, 28 Octobre, 1719._ [338] _Paroles des Renards _[Outagamies]_ dans un Conseil tenu le 6 Septembre, 1722._ [339] _Reponse du Ministre a la lettre du Marquis de Vaudreuil du 11 Octobre, 1723._ [340] _Memoire sur les Renards, 27 Avril, 1727._ [341] _Memoire concernant la Paix que M. de Lignery a faite avec les Chefs des Renards, Sakis _[Sacs]_, et Puants _[Winnebagoes]_, 7 Juin, 1726._ [342] _Memoire sur les Renards, 27 Avril, 1727._ [343] _Ibid._ [344] _Memoire du Roy, 29 Avril, 1727._ [345] _Beauharnois et Dupuy au Ministre, 25 Octobre, 1727._ [346] _Memoire de Dupuy, 1728._ [347] Desliettes came to meet them, by way of Chicago, with five hundred Illinois warriors and twenty Frenchmen. _La Perriere et La Fresniere a Beauharnois, 10 Septembre, 1728._ [348] _Guignas a Beauharnois, 29 Mai, 1728._ [349] _Depeche de Beauharnois, 1 Septembre, 1728._ [350] The best account of this expedition is that of Pere Emanuel Crespel. Lignery made a report which seems to be lost, as it does not appear in the Archives. [351] _Beauharnois au Ministre, 15 Mai, 1729_; _Ibid., 21 Juillet, 1729_. [352] _Beauharnois et Hocquart au Ministre, 2 Novembre, 1730._ An Indian tradition says that about this time there was a great battle between the Outagamies and the French, aided by their Indian allies, at the place called Little Butte des Morts, on the Fox River. According to the story, the Outagamies were nearly destroyed. Perhaps this is a perverted version of the Villiers affair. (See _Wisconsin Historical Collections_, viii, 207.) Beauharnois also reports, under date of 6 May, 1730, that a party of Outagamies, returning from a buffalo hunt, were surprised by two hundred Ottawas, Ojibwas, Menominies, and Winnebagoes, who killed eighty warriors and three hundred women and children. [353] Some particulars of this affair are given by Ferland, _Cours d'Histoire du Canada_, ii. 437; but he does not give his authority. I have found no report of it by those engaged. [354] _Relation de la Defaite des Renards par les Sauvages Hurons et Iroquois, le 28 Fevrier, 1732._ (Archives de la Marine.)