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    Amite River (category Bodies of water of East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana)
    The Amite River /ˈeɪ.mit/ (French: Rivière Amite) is a tributary of Lake Maurepas in Mississippi and Louisiana in the United States. It is about 117 miles...
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    name is Kickaátit. The Mississippi was spelled Mississipi or Missisipi during French Louisiana and was also known as the Rivière Saint-Louis. In 1519 Spanish...
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  • Bayou Manchac (category Bodies of water of East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana)
    fleuve St. Louis depuis la rivière d'Iberville jusq'à celle des Yasous, et les parties connues de la Rivière Rouge et la Rivière Noire, https://www.loc.gov/resource/g4042m...
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  • Comite River (category Bodies of water of East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana)
    (French: Rivière Comité) is a right-bank tributary of the Amite River, with a confluence near the city of Denham Springs, east of Baton Rouge, Louisiana...
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    Sainte-Marie Rivière Rouge Rivière aux Serpents (Parc national d'Oka) North shore of Rivière des Mille Îles Rivière des Mille-Îles Rivière du Chêne Rivière du Chicot...
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    Atchafalaya River (category Mississippi River watershed)
    (/əˌtʃæf.əˈlaɪ.ə/ French: La Rivière Atchafalaya, Spanish: Río Atchafalaya) is a 137-mile-long (220 km) distributary of the Mississippi River and Red River in...
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  • St. George, Louisiana (category Cities in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana)
    the Battle of Baton Rouge (1779).[citation needed] Their victories at Fort Bute and Fort New Richmond helped to clear the Mississippi River of British forces...
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    The Mississippi River was an important military highway that bordered ten states, roughly equally divided between Union and Confederate loyalties. Both...
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    olive-browned Louisianese- the rosy-cheeked maiden from La belle riviere ( La Belle Rivière is the native Louisiana French name for Ohio)..." The Louisiana...
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    a tributary of the Mississippi River, the Red River now is a tributary of the Atchafalaya River, a distributary of the Mississippi that flows separately...
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  • Marc-Aurèle-Fortin Mégantic—L'Érable Montcalm Montmagny—L'Islet—Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup (Rivière-du-Loup—Montmagny before 2004) Montmorency—Charlevoix—Haute-Côte-Nord...
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  • cities as Quebec, Trois-Rivières and Montreal in Canada; Detroit, Green Bay, St. Louis, Cape Girardeau, Mobile, Biloxi, Baton Rouge and New Orleans in the...
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    Madawaska River Mattawa River Mississippi River Montreal River Rivière du Nord Noire River Petawawa River Rideau River Rouge River South Nation River Communities...
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    was then the Illinois Country of New France, they named the waterway La Rivière des Plaines (River of the Plains). The local Native Americans showed these...
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    this time, the French also established bases at Ester (part of Petite Rivière) and Gonaïves. Ester was a rich village, inhabited by merchants, and equipped...
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    such as the Grand fleuve de Hochelaga and the Grande rivière du Canada, where fleuve and rivière are two French words (fleuve being a river that flows...
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    New Orleans has historically received much attention, the Cane River (Rivière aux Cannes) area developed its own strong Creole culture. Creole migrants...
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    Tunnel connect the cities. The river's English name comes from the French Rivière du Détroit (translated as "River of the Strait"). The Detroit River has...
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  • Lindholm  D L 31 2022 Helsingborg, Sweden 6 Mason Lohrei D L 24 2020 Baton Rouge, Louisiana 63 Brad Marchand (C) LW L 36 2006 Halifax, Nova Scotia 73 Charlie...
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  • census-designated place Columbia Heights, Minnesota, suburb of Minneapolis Columbus, Mississippi, city Columbia, Missouri, city Columbus, Montana, town Columbia, New...
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  • more than one year, both the Toledo Storm (now the Toledo Walleye) and Mississippi Sea Wolves (now defunct) were granted two-year suspensions—the Sea Wolves...
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  • Kansas City, Topeka, Wichita Kentucky Lexington, Louisville Louisiana Baton Rouge, Hammond, Houma, Lafayette, New Orleans, Shreveport Maine Bangor, Portland...
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    Fournaise 2 632 m Rivière des Pluies Rivière du Mât Rivière des Galets Rivière des Marsouins Rivière de l'Est Rivière des Remparts Rivière Saint-Étienne Saint-Denis...
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    like that : the Creole language of Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 0807127795. OCLC 846496076.{{cite...
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    ISBN 1-934543-47-0) Tome 4 (Rivière Blanche, 2009, ISBN 1-934543-85-3) Tome 5 (Rivière Blanche, 2010, ISBN 978-1-935558-03-3) Tome 6 (Rivière Blanche, 2010,...
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    settlement (e.g. Baton Rouge, Detroit, New Orleans, Saint Louis). Nine state capitals are French words or of French origin (Baton Rouge, Boise, Des Moines...
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  • suburbs of Chicago) January 5, 2002 overlaid on 847 225 Louisiana (Baton Rouge area and east-central Louisiana) August 17, 1998 created by split of 504...
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  • Greater Napanee Ontario Town 461.31 54 La Malbaie Quebec Ville 459.34 55 Rivière-Rouge Quebec Ville 455.35 56 Quebec City Quebec Ville 454.1 57 Kingston Ontario...
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    Rivière des Sables (Sandy Creek, New York?), Rivière de la Planche, Rivière de la Grande Famine and Rivière de la Petite Famine. According to Père Charlevoix...
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    Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Fort Bute, and Natchez, Mississippi, and captured five forts. In doing so, Gálvez opened navigation on the Mississippi River north...
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