• Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe (4 February 1683 in Saint-Malo – 26 September 1765) was a French explorer who is credited with using the name "Little...
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  • general and cousin of Frédéric-César Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe (1683–1765), French explorer Frédéric-César de La Harpe (1754–1838), Swiss politician and...
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    as a significant river landmark in 1722 by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe. In 1818 the rock was used as a survey marker, and formed the...
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  • about 6,000 people, as described by French explorer and trader Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe in his record of his 1719 trading expedition to this region...
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    the river, named the "Little Rock" by the French explorer Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe in 1722. The capital of the Arkansas Territory was moved to...
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    of Nuestra Señora del Pilar de Los Adaes, near Natchitoches, Louisiana. French explorer Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe wrote in 1719 that the Adai were...
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    units. La Harpe Township was named for Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe, a French explorer. According to the 2021 census gazetteer files, La Harpe Township...
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  • Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. 18th-century French explorer Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe and French ethnographer Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz wrote...
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  • Bowie and Red River County, Texas. This post was founded by Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe, and it is the first European settlement in northeast Texas...
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  • Look up Benard, Bénard, or bénard in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Benard or Bénard is a surname or given name. Notable people with the name include:...
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  • (Indian Ocean, Australia) Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe (North America) Louis Blanchette (North America) Joseph Hugues Boissieu La Martinière (Pacific Ocean)...
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    principal village, that stood at least until 1820. French explorer Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe travelled through the region in 1719, and the people he called...
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    more than one mile west of Hartshorne. The French explorer Jean Baptiste Bénard de La Harpe first mapped the site of Haileyville in 1719 during his expedition...
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    Oklahoma and Texas. In his 1719 expedition, French explorer Jean Baptiste Bénard de La Harpe encountered a Tawakoni village in present-day Muskogee County...
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  • Mooney determined that a more accurate count was proposed by Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe when he found that the tribe population was around 1500 people...
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  • proposed by Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe, who found that the tribe population was around 1500 people. In 1722, Father Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix...
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    Louisiana (redirect from US-LA)
    Louis Hennepin, Lahontan, Louis Narcisse Baudry des Lozières, Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe, and Laval. In this group, the explorer Antoine Simon Le Page...
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    anthropologist George Odell to be the most likely place where Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe first encountered a group of Wichita people in 1719. Odell's...
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  • the Southern Plains before 1650. In 1719, French explorer Jean Baptiste Bénard de La Harpe encountered the Lipan Apache near what is now Latimer County...
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    trinkets and feared confrontation with Spanish conquistadors. Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe, a French trader, explorer, and nobleman had led an expedition...
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    French explorer Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe developed camaraderie among the Anadarko in 1719 when he established Fort Saint Louis de los Cadodaquious...
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    1200). One of the first Europeans to come to this area was Jean Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe. He was a French explorer and trader who discovered a Wichita...
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    Shawnee, Delaware and Kickapoo in the area. French explorer Jean Baptiste Bénard de La Harpe founded the military fort Le Poste des Cadodaquious in 1719...
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  • Cadeaux and namesake of Brevelle Lake. Anne des Cadeaux Brevelle Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe Red River County, Texas Clarksville, Texas Le Poste des Cadodaquious...
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  • participated in a 1722 exploration of the Arkansas River with Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe, and helped establish a concession at Pascagoula, Mississippi...
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    January 29 – Juan de Galavís, Spanish Catholic Archbishop of Santo Domingo, Bogotá (d. 1739) February 4 – Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe, French explorer...
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  • historically was part of the Caddo Confederacy. French explorer Jean Baptiste Bénard de La Harpe founded the military fort Le Poste des Cadodaquious in 1719...
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    that the river was named in 1716 by French explorers, led by Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe, who may have used a post to mark the mouth of the river. The...
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    Swiss-born British army officer (b. 1719) September 26 – Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe, French explorer of North America (b. 1683) October 10 – Lionel...
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    Tisné's expedition likely passed through parts of Oklahoma. Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe led a second 1719 expedition through eastern Oklahoma to Arkansas...
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