Henri de Tonti
Henri de Tonti (1649 - 1704) was an Italian soldier , explorer, and tradesman of fur to the service of the France.
Henri de Tonti was probably born close to Gaète, Italy in 1649 or 1650. He was the son of Lorenzo de Tonti which was a financier and a former governor of Gaeta. Lorenzo de Tonti was the inventor of the known Assurance-vie under the name of protective sacking. Alphonse of Tonti, which was one of the founders of what is now Detroit, was his younger brother.
Lorenzo was implied in a revolt against the vice Spanish king with Naples, in Italy, and was forced to seek the political asylum in France around the period of the birth of Henri.
In 1668, Henri joint the French Army and later is useful in the French navy. During the sicilian wars, Henri lost his hand in an explosion of grenade and as from this time henceforth carried a prosthetic hook covered by a glove being worth to him of this fact the nickname of " hand of fer".
During the summer 1678, Tonti travelled with famous the Rene Robert Cavelier of the Room which identified it as an able associate. The Room let Tonti hold the Fort Crèvecœur in the Illinois while even turned over to him in Ontario.
In spring 1682 Tonti travelled with the Room on its famous descent of the river of the the Mississippi. The letters and the newspapers of Tonti are the materials very good on these explorations.
In August 1704, Tonti contracted the Yellow fever and died in Old Mobile near to Mobile, Alabama nowadays.
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