Pierre D'Artaguiette

In March 1736 Pierre d'Artaguette, a French officer from the Illinois country, marched south with about 140 French soldiers and militia and some 266 northern Indian allies to join Bienville's army against the Chickasaw. The southern army was behind schedule, and a dispatch days before the fight put the linkup off to late April. Short of supplies, he attacked a fortified village called Ogoula Tchetoka on March 25. Four to five hundred Chickasaw surrounded his force, and most of his allies fled. Accounts differ on the toll, but a Jesuit priest, Antoine Senat, and sixteen soldiers were burned alive.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Chickasaw Council House — 12 mi
  A roadside exhibit on the Natchez Trace Parkway marking the Chickasaw capital of the 1820s and the council house where the 1832 treaty of Pontotoc Creek ended Chickasaw title to Mississippi.
• Chickasaw Village Site — 15 mi
  A Chickasaw village on a remnant of the Black Belt Prairie beside the Natchez Trace Parkway, with house outlines marked on the ground and signs that speak in Chickasaw voices.
• Tupelo National Battlefield — 15 mi
  A one-acre park on Main Street marking the July 1864 battle of Tupelo, a Union victory that kept Nathan Bedford Forrest away from Sherman's supply line, with Black soldiers among the defenders.
• Natchez Trace Parkway Visitor Center — 17 mi
  The parkway's headquarters and official visitor center near Tupelo, with a film, a small museum of the Old Trace and the surviving New Deal houses of the Tupelo Homesteads.

More markers nearby

• Pontotoc County Blues — steps away
• Jim Weatherly — 0.4 mi
• Maj. Gen. William Colbert — 0.5 mi
• Lochinvar — 2.0 mi