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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    renamed Poste Vincennes in his honor. Louisiana Governor Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, next appointed Louis Groston de Saint-Ange de Bellerive...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    their homelands along Mille Lacs Lake. Explorers such as Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut, Father Louis Hennepin, Jonathan Carver, Henry Schoolcraft, and...
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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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    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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    Township Douglas Township Eureka Township Greenvale Township Hampton Township Marshan Township Nininger Township Randolph Township Ravenna Township Sciota...
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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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  • 2010-02-19. Clarion County Historical Society, Walking Among Our Ancestors: Book One: Ashland Township, Mechling Bookbindery (2003) ISBN 0-9744657-3-9...
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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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    will be rotten like last year". The Commissioners of the Directory such as Sieur Mignon, Commissioner of the executive board for the canton of Bouin, informed...
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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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    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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    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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    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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