Georges Henri Victor Collot
Victor Collot, in full Georges Henri Victor Collot (21 March 1750 – 15 May 1805), was a French military officer who served in the New World in various capacities, among them as Governor of Guadeloupe.He is best known for his expedition down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers in the spring and summer of 1796. The French ambassador to the United States, assigned him his mission. French authorities believed some settlers in the region were French sympathizers. France and the United States engaged in an undeclared "quasi war", at sea, two years later.
Collot started his expedition in Philadelphia. He triggered scrutiny, right from the beginning, and was shadowed by Zebulon Pike.
Pike arrested Collot, at Fort Massac, Illinois, but had to release him as there was no charges that could be laid against him.
Collot traveled through very lightly settled territories. France had ceded Louisiana, and all the Mississippi basin west of the Mississippi itself to Spain. Following the American Revolution the eastern branches of the Mississippi was American territory.
He made maps and observed fortifications and the country's military preparedness, almost certainly on a secret mission on behalf of the French Republic. He had been watched during his progress, however, and on arriving in New Orleans he was almost immediately arrested by Carondelet, the Spanish governor, on October 27, and placed in custody at the Balize until he could be sent out of the colony on December 4. Gen. Collot published an account of this expedition under the title "Voyage dans l'Amérique Septentrionale". He also authored a "Mémoire sur les moyens de soumettre les rebelles de St. Dominique", a proposal for subjugating the rebels of San Domingo.
His account of his travels was translated into English and published in 1826.
In March 2017 the Kentucky Gateway Museum Center celebrated purchasing two of Collot's maps, maps of Kentucky. When describing the purchase the ''Kentucky Herald-Leader'' called Collot ''"an excellent mapmaker but a lousy spy."''
One of the maps was ''“The Course of the Ohio from its Source to its Junction with the Mississippi.”'' It was purchased from a private collector. The other map was a map of Kentucky. Most of Collot's other maps were of rivers, or riverports, while the second map purchase was of the overland route between Maysville to Lexington. Provided by Wikipedia
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Precis des evenemens qui se sont passes a la Guadeloupe pendant l'administration de George, Henry, Victor Collot, depuis le 20 mars, 1793, jusq'au 22 avril, 1794 Présenté à la Conv... by Collot, Georges-Henri-Victor, 1750-1805
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Réponse aux inculpations que Hugues a voulu faire résulter de la publication d'une de mes lettres, en date du 20 Mai 1794 adressée aux comitiées de salut public, des colonies & de... by Collot, Georges-Henri-Victor, 1750-1805
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Plan of the town of Pittsburg by Collot, Georges-Henri-Victor, 1750-1805
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Road from Limestone to Frankfort in the state of Kentucky by Collot, Georges-Henri-Victor, 1750-1805
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Precis des evenemens qui se sont passes a la Guadeloupe pendant l'administration de George, Henry, Victor Collot, depuis le 20 mars, 1793, jusq'au 22 avril, 1794 Présenté à la Conv... by Collot, Georges-Henri-Victor, 1750-1805
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General map of North America by Collot, Georges-Henri-Victor, 1750-1805
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Map of the country of the Illinois by Collot, Georges-Henri-Victor, 1750-1805
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Chart of the sources of the Mobile and of the River Yazoo including a part of the course of the Mississipi from the River Margot to the Natches. by Collot, Georges-Henri-Victor, 1750-1805
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Map of the course of the Mississipi [sic] from the Missouri and the country of the Illinois to the mouth of this river by Collot, Georges-Henri-Victor, 1750-1805
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Map of the Missouri; of the higher parts of the Mississipi, and of the elevated plain where the waters divide, which run eastward into the River St. Lawrence, north east into Hudso... by Collot, Georges-Henri-Victor, 1750-1805
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Plan of St. Lewis with the project of an intrenched Camp French / by Collot, Georges-Henri-Victor, 1750-1805
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General map of the course of the Ohio from its source to its junction with the Mississipi [sic] by Collot, Georges-Henri-Victor, 1750-1805
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Plan of Fort Erie by Collot, Georges-Henri-Victor, 1750-1805
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Plan of Fort Niagara by Collot, Georges-Henri-Victor, 1750-1805
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Plan of an old fort in the state of Kentucky by Collot, Georges-Henri-Victor, 1750-1805
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Plan of the Rapids or Falls of the Ohio latitude of Louisville / by Collot, Georges-Henri-Victor, 1750-1805
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Passage of a branch of the river Juniata across a chain of mountains uninhabited and covered with wood by Collot, Georges-Henri-Victor, 1750-1805
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Plan of Cape Girardo by Collot, Georges-Henri-Victor, 1750-1805
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Plan of the fort of New Madrid or Anse à la Graisse by Collot, Georges-Henri-Victor, 1750-1805
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Plan of Fort des Ecores at Margot by Collot, Georges-Henri-Victor, 1750-1805
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