• Le Sieur Township is a township in New Madrid County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. Its population was 585 as of the 2010 census. U.S. Geological Survey...
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    René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (/ləˈsæl/; November 22, 1643 – March 19, 1687), was a 17th-century French explorer and fur trader in North America...
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  • the fleet and director of embarkations for New France. Jean-Paul Le Gardeur, sieur de Repentigny, born in Ville-Marie on 4 October 1661 and died in 1738...
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  • Turtle. In 1752, a smallpox epidemic hit many Miami villages. Charles le Moyne, Sieur de Longueil wrote of it to the minister of colonial affairs in France...
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    accompanied fellow French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle in 1679 on the ship Le Griffon in exploring the Great Lakes. The Sacred Heart...
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    (named for René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, a french explorer) Le Roy Le Sueur (named for Pierre-Charles Le Sueur) Leech Lake (originally lac...
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  • 17th century France, Jean-Baptiste de La Salle and René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, for whom many places and things are named: La Salle, Manitoba...
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    Founded in 1732 by French fur traders, notably François-Marie Bissot, Sieur de Vincennes, for whom the Fort was named, Vincennes is the oldest continually...
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    settled by Europeans in 1680, when French explorers René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle and Henri de Tonti constructed Fort Crevecoeur. This fort would...
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    region on the ship Le Griffon with Louis Hennepin, Sieur de La Salle reached St. Ignace on August 27, 1679. Louis de La Porte, Sieur de Louvigny founded...
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    va aux Assinipoualacs à 120 lieues vers le Nord-Ouest." In late 1683 or spring 1684, Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut, established a trading post near...
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    populations, with few difficulties or hostilities. In 1679, Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle built Fort Miami at present-day St. Joseph. In 1691, the French...
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  • that was built and commanded by the French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle in 1679. The ship disappeared with all six crew members and...
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  • The U.S. state of Missouri is divided into 1,378 townships in 114 counties. Contents Top A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See also...
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  • when his village was visited by Louis Jolliet and René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, accompanied by Martin Chartier. In 1674 Chartier married Opessa's...
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    Pierre Melanson, an Acadian settler who traveled east from Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons's original settlement at Port Royal and its habitation. Pierre,...
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    Montreal. The population as of the Canada 2021 Census was 11,332. In 1708, Sieur Claude de Ramezey obtained a parcel of land which was named the Monnoir...
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    village In 1696, the Comte de Frontenac appointed Jean Baptiste Bissot, Sieur de Vincennes as commander of the French outposts in northeast Indiana and...
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    Orleans was established along the river crescent by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, with construction patterned after the 1711 resettlement...
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    René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, built Fort Miami on the bluff overlooking Lake Michigan. In 1679, he waited for the ship Le Griffon, which never...
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  • as "Sieur" ("Lordship"), a title generally used for landowners of elevated social status. Several Pennsylvania documents refer to him as "Captain Le Tort...
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    York: Knopf. Champlain, Samuel (1613). Les voyages du Sieur de Champlain, Saintongeois, capitaine ordinaire pour le Roy en la Marine (in French). J. Berjon...
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    perhaps intermittently, by members of the d'Ailleboust family, who used "sieur de Coulonge" as a title. Accounts differ: the Commission de toponymie du...
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    originally as Fort Miami, a trading post constructed by Jean Baptiste Bissot, Sieur de Vincennes around 1706. The modern city was platted in 1823 following...
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    Gastineau family - not Gatineau - one of its members, Nicolas Gastineau sieur Duplessis (1627-1689). Prior to European settlement, the Gatineau area was...
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    René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle and Henry de Tonty built Fort St. Louis on the large butte by the river in the winter of 1682. Called Le Rocher, the butte...
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    Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut, established a fur trading post on Lake Nipigon named Fort la Tourette after his brother, Claude Greysolon, Sieur de la Tourette...
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    the Illinois Country of New France, and went with René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle on his 1679–80 journey to Lake Erie, Lake Huron, and Lake Michigan...
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    twenty-five men who went with Henri de Tonti to search for René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle at the mouth of the Mississippi,: 195 : 130–31  but they could...
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    Illinois Country. In 1680, French explorers under René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle and Henri de Tonti constructed a fort at the site of present-day...
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