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4 days ago · 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.
4 days ago · Nine years later the French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, sieur (lord) de La Salle, reached the delta itself, having opened the even-easier portage from the Great Lakes via the Illinois River. He grasped at once the strategic significance of the huge drainage system and promptly claimed the entire Mississippi basin for France .
4 days ago · 1682: René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, claims the Mississippi River basin for France, naming it Louisiana. 1759: British victory in the Battle of the Plains of Abraham removes French Control from Quebec; Road to Independence (1776-1789) 1775: The American Revolutionary War begins with the battles of Lexington and Concord.
4 days ago · Near present-day Peoria, René-Robert Cavelier, sieur de La Salle, established the first French foothold, Fort Crèvecoeur, and built Fort Saint Louis near Ottawa. In the 1760s, after the French and Indian War, France ceded to Britain its claim to lands east of the Mississippi.
4 days ago · The site was visited by the French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, sieur de La Salle, in 1669. Settlement began with the arrival of loyalists fleeing the rebellious 13 American colonies in 1778.
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1 day ago · In 1682, René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, followed the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico and claimed the vast Mississippi basin in Louis' name, calling it Louisiane. French trading posts were also established in India, at Chandernagore and Pondicherry, and in the Indian Ocean at Île Bourbon. Throughout these regions, Louis and Colbert ...
4 days ago · La Louisiane a été découverte en 1682, par l'explorateur français René-Robert Cavelier de la Salle. Elle faisait alors partie de la colonie française de Nouvelle-France, futur Québec. La Louisiane était alors bien plus grande.
