Natchez revolt
The Natchez and French had lived alongside each other in the Louisiana colony for more than a decade prior to the incident. In a coordinated attack on the fort and the homesteads, the NatcheZ killed almost all of the Frenchmen, while sparing most of the women and African slaves. By 1736 the Nat Chez had ceased to exist as an independent people.
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The Natchez and French had lived alongside each other in the Louisiana colony for more than a decade prior to the incident. In a coordinated attack on the fort and the homesteads, the NatcheZ killed almost all of the Frenchmen, while sparing most of the women and African slaves. Approximately 230 colonists were killed overall. The attack on Fort Rosalie destroyed some of the colony’s most productive farms and endangered shipments of food and trade goods on the Mississippi River. The French state returned control of Louisiana from the Company of the Indies to the crown in 1731, as the company had been having trouble running the colony. The first conflict between the French and the NatChez took place in 1716, when the Governor of Louisiana, Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, neglected to renew alliance with the peace calumet. This caused French–Natchez relations to further deteriorate. By 1736 the Nat Chez had ceased to exist as an independent people. A number of the pro-British villages were executed for attacking the French fort, and a number of random Nat chez leaders were executed by the French for the attack. The Natchechez were the most civilized tribe of the region. Their society was strictly divided into a noble class called \”the Suns\” and a commoner class called in French \”the Stinkards\”. The French considered the French considered them to be superior to the Natchez, who were considered the least civilized of all the tribes in the area.
In 1682, Robert de La Salle became the first Frenchman to encounter the Natatchez and declared them an ally. In 1702, the French explorer Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville in peace and allowed a French missionary to settle among them. By 1700, the numbers had been reduced to about 3,500 by the diseases that ravaged indigenous populations in the wake of contact with Europeans, and by 1720 further epidemics had halved that population. The central village, called the Grand Village, was led by the paramount chief Great Sun ) and the war chief Tattooed Serpent ), both of whom were interested in pursuing an alliances with the French. The war chief was killed by the lieutenant Jean-Biste Le MoyNE de Bienville in 1702. The treaty of 1716 promised to supply labor and materials for the construction of the fort, but it was broken in 1723 when the French promised to exchange their leaders for the culprits who had attacked the French in exchange for the fort. The Treaty of 1723 was also broken by the death of the lieutenant, who was captured and forced to attend a parley where he captured, and forced them to exchange them for the French leaders who had killed the French commander, Sieur de Chépart. The treaties of 1724 and 1725 were also broken. The First Natcheze War was fought between the Nat cheze and the French between 1726 and 1729.
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