chocage

Updated: October 31, 2024

The British population in the colonies was then about 1,000,000; the French, something like 100,000. Rogers called this river Chocage. Rogers' camp was on the present site of the city of Cleveland. Parkman says he was about fifty years old when he met Major Rogers, which was in 1760. Chief Richardville also asserted that Pontiac was born of an Ottawa father and a Miami mother.

- The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13