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30. Mai 2024 · Born in 1643, French explorer René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, abandoned training as a priest for the summons of economic opportunity in North America. La Salle settled near Montreal in 1666 and engaged in the fur trade. He soon organized and led expeditions throughout the upper Midwest.
25. Mai 2024 · French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle was the first European to travel the entirety of the Mississippi River, achieving the feat in 1682. He was also the creator of the name Louisiana for the vast territory that later became part of the U.S.
9. Mai 2024 · Louis Hennepin (born May 12, 1626, Ath, Belgium—died after 1701, Rome?) was a Franciscan missionary who, with the celebrated explorer René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, penetrated the Great Lakes in 1679 to the region of Illinois and wrote the first published description of the country.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Vor 5 Tagen · Henri de Tonti, who served as René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle’s lieutenant on the 1682 expedition, favorably described their village on the banks of the Mississippi River at Lake St. Joseph, in modern-day Tensas Parish. Praising the quality of their “cabins” and temple, Tonti indicated that the buildings consisted of ...
17. Mai 2024 · An explorer, known by every school child in America as La Salle, gave France a way to connect its colony in Canada to its holdings in the Gulf of Mexico area. Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle (1643-1687) was born in Rouen, France to a well-off family.
Vor 5 Tagen · In 1677, Rene-Robert Cavelier, sieur de la Salle, and Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac et de Palluau, received a fur trade monopoly in the Illinois Country. The trading scheme produced little profit. La Salle then shifted his attention to the development of colonies farther south along the great river. Joined by his lieutenant ...
Vor 2 Tagen · French explorer Robert La Salle sailed down the Mississippi River into Spanish Florida over a century later in 1682 and claimed the river system for France. He returned two years later with 200 colonists to build a fort and settlement at the mouth of the Mississippi. But he missed it…..landing instead on the coast of Texas where his ships sunk.
