Fort de Cavagnal
| Fort de Cavagnial | |
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| north of Fort Leavenworth, Kansas | |
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| Type | Fort |
| Site information | |
| Controlled by | New France; Spain |
| Site history | |
| Built | 1744 |
| In use | 1744-1764 |
Fort de Cavagnial (also known as Fort Cavagnolle or Post of the Missouri or Fort de la Trinité) was a French fort on the west side of the Missouri River somewhere north of Kansas City, Kansas, and Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, from 1744 until about 1764.
The fort named for Louisiana Governor Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial, was the furthest west on the Missouri at the time. Its first commandant was François Coulon de Villiers who came from an illustrious New France military family (the slaughter of his brother Joseph Coulon de Jumonville while in the custody of George Washington was to ignite the French and Indian War and another brother Louis Coulon de Villiers was the only commander to whom Washington ever surrendered).
Like many frontier forts it doubled as a trading post operated by Joseph Athanase Trottier dit Desruisseaux (Joseph Deruisseau) born 10 May 1709 at Lachine, QC, Canada and died Jan 1767 at New Orleans, Orleans, LA (Bayou St-John) his Father and Mother were Joseph Trottier dit Desruisseaux and Marie Francoise Cuillerier. Joseph who had a monopoly on trade on the Missouri from January 1, 1745 to May 20, 1750. It was described as:
The exact location of the fort is not known because of conflicting reports about its relationship to trade with the Kansa tribe. British reports placed it below the confluence of the Kansas River and Missouri in what is today Kansas City. It appears as a placename at the confluence in the USGS database.
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