Does anybody know anything about a guy named henri de tonti? for a report ya it sucks but got to do it!?

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Answer 1

Henri de Tonti (1649 or 1650 – September, 1704) was an Italian-born soldier, explorer, and fur trader in the service of France. Henri de Tonti is perhaps one of the most legendary historical figures in the early history of Mobile. At twenty-eight, he first served in North America with Robert Cavalier de La Salle. Tonti's mission was to help La Salle set up trading posts along the Mississippi River to the Gulf in order to exploit the riches of the surrounding lands for the French.

Although La Salle's colonizing efforts ended in disaster along the Texas coast, Tonti continued working for over twenty years to establish a fur trade in the Mississippi Valley. During this time he became known as a successful businessman, frontiersman, fighter, and diplomat. It was probably his letters to officials in France about the possibilities of English encroachment westward from Virginia and the Carolinas that led King Louis XIV to sponsor Iberville's expeditions and the establishment of Fort Louis de La Louisiane on the Mobile River.

From 1683 to 1702, Tonti ran several trading posts in the Illinois Country, built Fort Saint Louis on the Illinois River, and established a post on the Arkansas River in 1686. Over the course of his twenty-year fur-trading venture, Tonti canoed up and down the Mississippi River six times. The last trip ended at Mobile, where he commanded the Canadian soldiers and was an essential figure in the success of the small French outpost.

Tonti lost his right hand in a grenade explosion when he was a young soldier, and was called "Bras-de-fer," or Iron Hand, by the Indians. His facility at using the iron replacement contributed to his personality and made him a memorable figure to the Indians he encountered. Tonti's vast negotiating experience and familiarity with Native Americans earned him further success and respect among the Indian nations of the Gulf coast.

Soon after arriving at Fort Louis, Commandant Iberville, sent him on a mission to invite the Choctaw and Chickasaw to make peace with each other and the French. He also bravely led several punitive campaigns against Indians allied with the English. Throughout his time at Mobile, Bienville and the rest of the colonists relied upon Tonti as a strong and unfailing advisor and aide. His death from yellow fever was a great misfortune for the colonists, who laid him to rest there in September 1704.

Answer 2

OK so it sucks, but it's your homework so you should do the googling.