René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle
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René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle
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René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, was a 17th-century French explorer and fur trader in North America. He explored the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, and the Mississippi River. He is best known for an early 1682 expedition in which he canoed the lower Mississippi River from the mouth of the Illinois River to the Gulf of Mexico; there, on 9 April 1682, he claimed the Mississippi River basin for France after giving it the name La Louisiane. One source states that "he acq
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17th-century French explorer and fur trader in North America
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9-Robert_Cavelier,_Sieur_de_La_Salle
date created:
2003-03-01T12:28:20Z
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2024-09-05T13:49:07Z
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