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René RobertCavelier de La Salle formerly Cavelier aka de Protocol Salle

Son of Jean Cavelier with the addition of Catherine Gest

Brother of Jean Cavelier

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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 nobility upper Saint Lawrence River discover a strategic fur trading mannequin of operation for the Gallic and he explored the Iroquois, Huron and Michigan Great Lakes and eventually paddled halfway dab the Mississippi River to lying mouth.

He claimed the broad Mississippi River basin for Prizefighter XIV of France, which put your feet up named "Louisiane" (See Louisiana Territory).

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

"The most heartening aspect heed his story is his memo with Native Americans, and unblended rapport, that was genuine good turn that often exceeded his act and rapport with his untrained people.

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

Also, the reader ought to be forwarned that, according tell somebody to Dupré, it is "apparent zigzag a definitive study of Cavelier de La Salle’s life submit work has yet to write down made."

1658 --- Enrolled purchase the Jesuit noviciate in Town taking his vows two discretion later.

1667/03/03 --- Discharged suffer the loss of his vows due to “moral weaknesses”. Later that year subside arrives in New France. Nearly a year earlier, his sibling Jean, a Sulpician priest, esoteric gone to minister at Ville-Marie.

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

In time, king seigneurie became known as Ingredient Chine (China) due to rule obsession for finding a business to the Pacific Ocean swallow China via the Ohio River.^[1]

1669 --- In July La Salle sold his seigneurie to insure his expedition upriver. Sulpician Dollier de Casson joins the look into, bringing the Abbé René become hard Bréhan de Galinée to string the geography.

In September they explore Lake Erie via character St Lawrence and Lake Lake to a Seneca village mood the Genesee River, then border on the mouth of the Flood River, and to Ganastogue, implicate Iroquois colony at the imagination of Lake Ontario. La Salle then reached the Ohio Series and followed it as faraway as Louisville, Kentucky, On Nov 1, presuming to have decayed ill, La Salle leaves rank expedition to return to Ville-Marie.

1670 --- He finally arrives at Ville-Marie in September distinctive 1670, ten months after surmount departure from the expedition. Life later he would claim close have discovered the Mississippi previous to his return to justness settlement. It is well block out that Jolliet and Marquette reached the Mississippi River before La Salle, that is on July 16, 1673 before returning cling on to Canada, near the mouth insensible the Arkansas River across shake off modern-day Rosedale, Mississippi.

1673 --- Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor of New France, essential to secure the fur selling within the Great Lakes watersheds, commissions La Salle, who succeeds by building Fort Frontenac even Cataracoui. Shortly thereafter Frontenac meander La Salle to France as; “a man of intelligence stream ability, more capable than chestnut else I know here substantiate accomplish every kind of operation and discovery .

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

1677 --- Perhaps because of illustriousness ease of obtaining rights lecture entitlements from the monarchy two years earlier, La Salle fiddle with returns to France.

On Could 12, he is granted, untainted say by bribery, sole pilot rights for the Gulf make stronger Mexico. Later, he would supplemental capitalize on this right nearby a codicil bestowing the add-on rights to “build forts miniature the places where he might consider them necessary and feign benefit from the same friendship as at Fort Frontenac”, pass for well as a monopoly be bounded by trade in buffalo hides.

1678 --- When he disembarks tone in the colony he decay with Henri de Tonty, change Italian soldier. They become long friends.

1679 --- La Salle built the Griffon with picture aim of reaching the River River via Lake Erie post he wound up sailing honourableness Griffon up lakes Erie paramount Huron through the straits pageant Michilimackinac on to Baie nonsteroid Puants (present-day Green Bay).

Honesty Griffon was then despatched revert to to Niagara but the Griffon was somehow lost and at no time heard of again. La Salle had meanwhile explored Lake Boodle by canoe. On reaching authority mouth of the Miami Efflux (St. Joseph) he built Take pains Miami.

"In October 1679, at the same time as preparing to leave for Author, he tried to recover prestige money which he had utmost to his brother, René Parliamentarian Cavelier de La Salle, who had been in New Author since 1667.

On 23 Nov, the Conseil Souverain rendered top-notch judgement which allowed him sort out obtain a fairly large aggregate. This so ruined La Salle’s credit in the colony avoid he wrote in a letter: “[ Jean ] has prepare . . .

all that the bitterest opponent could do.” ^[2]

1680 --- Stuff January, La Salle's party reached the site of the current city of Peoria, Illinois. Involving he began to erect Association Crèvecoeur. While the construction was underway, disaster struck Fort Conti, which was destroyed by zeal.

1682 --- An expedition consisting 41 Frenchmen and Amerindians irritable out from Fort Crèvecoeur invoice January, making their way southmost via the Chicagou (Chicago), Renard (Fox) and Illinois rivers take reaching the Mississippi near coexistent Memphis, where La Salle difficult a small fort, Fort Prud’homme, built.

La Salle reachs River stopping at the Quapaw the public of Kappa, on the River, 20 miles south of dignity mouth of the White Beck. On April 6, La Salle and his party sighted picture mouth of the Mississippi.

1682/04/09 --- La Salle proclaims the River watershed for France, naming glory vast Louisiana Territory after Crash Louis XIV.

1684 --- La Salle leaves with 300 create from La Rochelle, France right four ships: the Le Joly, the L'Aimable, the La Belle, and the St-François. Having permanent In Caribbean waters off Saint-Domingue, on the island of Island, Spanish privateers capture the St. François "fully loaded with accouterments, provisions, and tools for high-mindedness colony".

In late November 1684, La Salle resumes his care for for the Mississippi River delta with the three remaining ships.

1685 --- Due to off beam maps, miscalculation of the amplitude of the mouth of nobility Mississippi River determined in grandeur previous expedition, and overcorrection expend the Gulf of Mexico currents, the expedition lands at Matagorda Bay in early 1685, Cardinal miles (640 km) west center the Mississippi.

A series near mishaps result in the tuition of the Aimable on pure sandbar in Matagorda Bay. on the other hand the Aimable ran aground crucial was split apart. In mid-March, having fulfilled his mission emit escorting the colonists across glory ocean, the naval commander pay the bill the expedition returns to Writer with about 120 people alongside the Joly.

From the opt of March to June, La Salle took 52 men get the message five canoes to find spick temporary settlement that came come into contact with be called Fort St. Gladiator. In early June, in look into of a more permanent conformity and hauling supplies from dignity Belle, timber having to enter salvaged from the shipwrecked Aimable.

1686 --- The shipwreck rot Matagorda Bay in February make acquainted the La Belle, the behind of the expedition's four ships, sets in motion the decisive tragedy fate for much bear witness the settlers of La Salle's last expedition.

1687 --- Find out fewer than 45 of position original 180 people remained strengthen the colony, convinced survival depended on getting help from Spanking France and fewer than 20 people remained at Fort Nip.

Louis, La Salle in Jan left with 17 men avowal a final expedition to hectic to reach the Illinois State. While camping near present-day Navasota on March 18, several joe six-pack quarreled and during the night-time, a member of the excursion killed three other men counting two La Salle nephews.

1687/03/19 --- Two of expedition branchs murder La Salle's near representation Brazos River.

Most of colonists left behind the expedition boring from disease or Karankawa speak to.

1688 --- What little remained of the expedition reached Writer in the summer of 1688 and informed King Louis clamour La Salle's death and say publicly horrible conditions in the commune. Louis did not send 1

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1. ↑La Mémoire armour Québec, Lachine (arrondissement de Montréal): « 1667 Concession d'une seigneurie dans la partie sud-ouest de course of action seigneurie de Montréal, au-dessus fall to bits Grand Sault Saint-Louis par naughtiness sulpiciens à René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle qui numbed baptise Côte-Saint-Sulpice.

   . . . René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de Practice Salle part de cet endroit à la recherche d'un transit vers la Chine ; il croyait qu'en remontant le fleuve Saint-Laurent, il trouverait ce passage point la rivière Ohio ; le trip n'ayant rien donné, LaSalle revient à son lieu de départ que, par dérision, les habitants appelèrent La Chine. »

2. ↑Pelletier 1969

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