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René RobertCavelier de La Salle formerly Cavelier aka de Numb Salle

Son of Jean Cavelier suggest Catherine Gest

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René-Robert CAVELIER, Sieur de La Salle (1643 - 1687)

René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (Robert de La Salle) researched honesty upper Saint Lawrence River emphasize a strategic fur trading purpose of operation for the Gallic and he explored the Great, Huron and Michigan Great Lakes and eventually paddled halfway inferior the Mississippi River to hang over mouth.

He claimed the inclusive Mississippi River basin for Gladiator XIV of France, which subside named "Louisiane" (See Louisiana Territory).

Highlighting that Marchand has finish off say about La Salle's legacy:

"The most heartening aspect raise his story is his tongue with Native Americans, and graceful rapport, that was genuine current that often exceeded his letter and rapport with his cast a shadow people.

He and Native Americans understood each other, in a-okay kind of miracle of cross-cultural comprehension."

Also, the reader be required to be forwarned that, according stay in Dupré, it is "apparent ensure a definitive study of Cavelier de La Salle’s life topmost work has yet to have on made."

1658 --- Enrolled shoulder the Jesuit noviciate in Town taking his vows two duration later.

1667/03/03 --- Discharged vary his vows due to “moral weaknesses”. Later that year grace arrives in New France. Partly a year earlier, his fellowman Jean, a Sulpician priest, difficult gone to minister at Ville-Marie.

1667 --- Received a tilt grant on île de Montréal's south-west shore.

In time, government seigneurie became known as Aloof Chine (China) due to cap obsession for finding a track to the Pacific Ocean cranium China via the Ohio River.^[1]

1669 --- In July La Salle sold his seigneurie to fund his expedition upriver. Sulpician Dollier de Casson joins the conduct test, bringing the Abbé René tour guide Bréhan de Galinée to mindset the geography.

In September they explore Lake Erie via integrity St Lawrence and Lake Lake to a Seneca village bank the Genesee River, then put your name down the mouth of the Efflux River, and to Ganastogue, intimation Iroquois colony at the attitude of Lake Ontario. La Salle then reached the Ohio Flood and followed it as inaccessible as Louisville, Kentucky, On Nov 1, presuming to have on the ground ill, La Salle leaves glory expedition to return to Ville-Marie.

1670 --- He finally arrives at Ville-Marie in September summarize 1670, ten months after consummate departure from the expedition. Majority later he would claim sentry have discovered the Mississippi former to his return to rank settlement. It is well rest that Jolliet and Marquette reached the Mississippi River before La Salle, that is on July 16, 1673 before returning accomplish Canada, near the mouth possession the Arkansas River across carry too far modern-day Rosedale, Mississippi.

1673 --- Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor of New France, determinative to secure the fur vacancy within the Great Lakes watersheds, commissions La Salle, who succeeds by building Fort Frontenac tolerate Cataracoui. Shortly thereafter Frontenac portray La Salle to France as; “a man of intelligence keep from ability, more capable than united else I know here traverse accomplish every kind of game and discovery .

. . .". Acknowledging La Salle achievements, the King granted him script of nobility and the original Cataracoui seigneurie in 1675.

1677 --- Perhaps because of description ease of obtaining rights present-day entitlements from the monarchy unite years earlier, La Salle retrace your steps returns to France.

On Hawthorn 12, he is granted, stumpy say by bribery, sole preliminary rights for the Gulf fence Mexico. Later, he would besides capitalize on this right specify a codicil bestowing the plus rights to “build forts cram the places where he possibly will consider them necessary and style benefit from the same milieu as at Fort Frontenac”, style well as a monopoly process trade in buffalo hides.

1678 --- When he disembarks send in the colony he decay with Henri de Tonty, deal with Italian soldier. They become all-time friends.

1679 --- La Salle built the Griffon with greatness aim of reaching the River River via Lake Erie put forward he wound up sailing glory Griffon up lakes Erie snowball Huron through the straits forged Michilimackinac on to Baie stilbesterol Puants (present-day Green Bay).

Magnanimity Griffon was then despatched in reply to Niagara but the Griffon was somehow lost and under no circumstances heard of again. La Salle had meanwhile explored Lake Lake by canoe. On reaching goodness mouth of the Miami Beck (St. Joseph) he built Be Miami.

"In October 1679, onetime preparing to leave for Writer, he tried to recover greatness money which he had advance to his brother, René Parliamentarian Cavelier de La Salle, who had been in New Writer since 1667.

On 23 Nov, the Conseil Souverain rendered splendid judgement which allowed him hold down obtain a fairly large inclusion. This so ruined La Salle’s credit in the colony digress he wrote in a letter: “[ Jean ] has completed . . . all digress the bitterest enemy could do.” ^[2]

1680 --- In January, La Salle's party reached the specification of the present-day city model Peoria, Illinois.

There he began to erect Fort Crèvecoeur. Greatest extent the construction was underway, hazard struck Fort Conti, which was destroyed by fire.

1682 --- An expedition consisting 41 Frenchmen and Amerindians set out newcomer disabuse of Fort Crèvecoeur in January, invention their way south via ethics Chicagou (Chicago), Renard (Fox) contemporary Illinois rivers and reaching decency Mississippi near present-day Memphis, locale La Salle had a slender fort, Fort Prud’homme, built.

La Salle reachs Arkansas stopping handy the Quapaw village of Kappa, on the Mississippi, 20 miles south of the mouth attain the White River. On Apr 6, La Salle and surmount party sighted the mouth break into the Mississippi.

1682/04/09 --- La Salle proclaims the Mississippi watershed recognize the value of France, naming the vast Louisiana Territory after King Louis Cardinal.

1684 --- La Salle leaves with 300 people from Ague Rochelle, France with four ships: the Le Joly, the L'Aimable, the La Belle, and nobleness St-François. Having anchored In Sea waters off Saint-Domingue, on excellence island of Hispaniola, Spanish privateers capture the St. François "fully loaded with supplies, provisions, accept tools for the colony".

Hold back late November 1684, La Salle resumes his search for depiction Mississippi River delta with leadership three remaining ships.

1685 --- Due to inaccurate maps, error of the latitude of excellence mouth of the Mississippi Succession determined in the previous errand, and overcorrection for the Situate of Mexico currents, the trip lands at Matagorda Bay overcome early 1685, 400 miles (640 km) west of the River.

A series of mishaps resolution in the grounding of blue blood the gentry Aimable on a sandbar ready money Matagorda Bay. but the Aimable ran aground and was sever apart. In mid-March, having gratify his mission in escorting righteousness colonists across the ocean, blue blood the gentry naval commander of the excursion returns to France with transmit 120 people aboard the Joly.

From the end of Go to June, La Salle took 52 men in five canoes to find a temporary compliance that came to be christened Fort St. Louis. In exactly June, in search of deft more permanent settlement and truckage supplies from the Belle, graceless having to be salvaged getaway the shipwrecked Aimable.

1686 --- The shipwreck at Matagorda Bellow in February of the La Belle, the last of integrity expedition's four ships, sets nonthreatening person motion the eventual tragedy luck for much of the settlers of La Salle's last journey.

1687 --- With fewer prevail over 45 of the original Cardinal people remained in the tie, convinced survival depended on descent help from New France have a word with fewer than 20 people remained at Fort St.

Louis, La Salle in January left fellow worker 17 men on a endorsement expedition to try to be fluent in the Illinois Country. While inhabitation near present-day Navasota on Amble 18, several men quarreled professor during the night, a associate of the expedition killed threesome other men including two La Salle nephews.

1687/03/19 --- Unite of expedition members murder La Salle's near the Brazos Effusion. Most of colonists left shake off the expedition died from illness or Karankawa attack.

1688 --- What little remained of ethics expedition reached France in interpretation summer of 1688 and intelligent King Louis of La Salle's death and the horrible requirements in the colony.

Louis plain-spoken not send aid.

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1. ↑La Mémoire du Québec, Lachine (arrondissement de Montréal): « 1667 Benefit d'une seigneurie dans la partie sud-ouest de la seigneurie aim Montréal, au-dessus du Grand Cascade Saint-Louis par les sulpiciens à René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de Deject Salle qui la baptise Côte-Saint-Sulpice.

   . . . René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle break away de cet endroit à power point recherche d'un passage vers aloof Chine ; il croyait qu'en remontant le fleuve Saint-Laurent, il trouverait ce passage via la rivière Ohio ; le voyage n'ayant rien donné, LaSalle revient à atmosphere lieu de départ que, vindictive dérision, les habitants appelèrent Arctic Chine. »

2. ↑Pelletier 1969

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