[Answer] What is the last name of the explorer who founded the city of Detroit?

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What is the last name of the explorer who founded the city of Detroit?

• Cadillac:Detroit was founded on July 24, 1701, by the French explorer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac. Cadillac was the leader of a band of soldiers and French Canadian adventurers who came ashore and claimed the land for the King of France. The city he helped found, Detroit, became the world center of automobile production in the 20th century. In 1902, William H. Murphy and Henry M. Leland, founders of the Cadillac automobile company, paid homage to him by adopting his name for their company and his self-created armorial insignia as its emblem.

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