Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Tienne Brul


  
  Étienne Brulé
In 1612 he guided Champlain to that lake, and on the return journey they were, so far as is known, the first Europeans to see Lake Ontario.
Brulé was then sent to the headwaters of the Susquehanna River and followed it to Chesapeake Bay.
The land, the survey, the maps: Phelps and Gorham's purchase in Western New York.(Oliver Phelps, Nathanial Gorham)
www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0809203.html   (292 words)

  
 History of Brulé's discoveries and explorations, 1610-1626, being a narrative of the discovery, by ...
CHAPTER V. brul£, with twelve hurons, goes to the ca-rantouannais.
It is not asserted by Champlain that Brul^ was armed and equipped for his journey as were the white men who were with the Huron warriors; on the contrary, it is reasonably certain that he had nothing but the simple means of defense possessed by his savage companions.
There were two streams, one from the southward emptying into Lake Simcoe, another, the Humber, from the northward flowing into Lake Ontario, which were to be their highway of travel, there being a short portage from one to the other, across which the two canoes could easily be carried.
memory.loc.gov /service/gc/gcmisc/gcfr/0015/0015.sgm   (16335 words)

  
 dates of buried caches
The Michigan electorate organized a government without U.S. sanction and in 1836 operated as a state, although outside the Union
The Ojibwa, the Ottawa, the Potawatomi, Native American groups were living in Michigan when the French explorer ?tienne Brul?
Later French explorers, traders, and missionaries came, including Jean Nicolet, who was searching for the Northwest Passage; Jacques Marquette, who founded a mission in the Mackinac region; and the empire builder, Robert Cavelier, sieur de La Salle, who came on the Griffon, the first ship to sail the Great Lakes.
www.treasurenet.com /f/index.php?topic=24776.0   (563 words)

  
 Michigan French Speaking Table - Michigan French Speaking Table   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Students and faculty can spend an entire weekend away from the Lawrence campus, speaking...
and other Algonquian-speaking Native American groups were living in Michigan when the French explorer ??????tienne Brul??????
Search Results - Click on a thumbnail image to view a larger image.
www.table-furniture-guide.com /michigan-french-speaking-table.html   (979 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.