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	Rene Robert Cavelier La Salle - LoveToKnow 1911
		RENE ROBERT CAVELIER LA SALLE, Sieur De (1643-1687), French explorer in North America, was born at Rouen on the 22nd of November 1643.
		He taught for a time in a school (probably Jesuit) in France, and seems to have forfeited his claim to his father's estate by his connexion with the Jesuits.
		Original narratives may be found, translated into English, in The Journeys of Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, as related by his Faithful Lieutenant, Henri de Tonty, andc.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Rene_Robert_Cavelier_La_Salle (1414 words)

	Rene Robert Cavelier Sieur de La Salle
		Rene Robert Cavelier Sieur de La Salle was born in Rouen, France in 1643.
		As a young man he studied to become a Jesuit minister but left the religious order due to his rather wild nature and his unwillingness to conform to Jesuit doctrine.
		Ohio Historical Society, 2005, "Rene Robert Cavelier Sieur de La Salle", Ohio History Central: An Online Encyclopedia of Ohio History.
	www.ohiohistorycentral.org /entry.php?rec=233 (493 words)

	lasalle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Robert de la Salle was born in Rouen, France in 1643.
		Robert thought it might be a route to the Pacific.
		Robert la Salle's men rebelled and killed both him and his nephew in 1687.
	www.bathpublicschools.com /fms/grade5/lasalle.html (166 words)

	METIS CULTURE 1679-1684
		July to September: (I)- Rene Robert Cavelier de La Salle (1643-1687) recorded that the Jesuits Father d'Allouez and Father Pierre Raffeix (1633-1724), had conspired with the Iroquois to kill La Salle's party and establish a close union between the Iroguois and the Miamis for the overthrow of the Illinois.
		(I)-Rene Robert Cavelier de La Salle (1643-1687) made claims that Daniel Greystone, sieur de Lhut (Dulhut, Duluth) (1636-1710) was involved in illegal activities in the west, calling him the 'King of the Outlaws', forcing him to return to France to clear his name in the summer of 1782.
		December 27: (I)-Rene Robert Cavelier de La Salle (1643-1687) went to join (I)-Henri de Tonty (1650-1704) an Italian Explorer who is forty leagues into the Miamis Country on the River Chicagou (Chekagou) (Des Plaines) in the Country of the Mascoutens.
	www3.telus.net /public/dgarneau/metis3a.htm (7833 words)

	Allen County, Indiana History <-> Genealogy Timeline
		Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle planned to use the portage route by traveling the Maumee River south to the portage, then on to the Little Wabash River which led to the Ohio River, and in turn to the Mississippi, and on to the Gulf of Mexico.
		Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle and Louis de Baude de Frontenac, Governor of New France, decided on plans which would enable them to gain control of the area enabling the Maumee-Wabash trade route (via the portage of 1670).
		Robert Dale Owen was the chief architect of this provision and the women of Indiana honored him with a silver pitcher.
	home.att.net /~mensch-family/IN_Allen_Co_Timeline.html (1794 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, explorer, was born in St. Herbland parish, Rouen, France, on November 22, 1643, the son of Catherine Geeset and Jean Cavelier.
		Cavelier was a wealthy wholesale merchant and "Master of the Brotherhood of Notre-Dame." There were two other sons, the Abbé Jean Cavelier and Nicolas Cavelier, a lawyer, who died rather young, and a daughter, who married Nicolas Crevel.
		The title La Salle, which René Robert assumed, was the name of a family estate near Rouen.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/LL/fla4.html (914 words)

	La Salle, Sieur de Biography / Biography of La Salle, Sieur de Biography
		René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1643-1687), was a French explorer and colonizer, best known for his discovery of the Mississippi Delta.
		René Robert Cavelier, later Sieur de La Salle, was born on Sept. 21, 1643, near Rouen into a wealthy bourgeois family.
		But Cavelier proved to be somewhat intractable, and after several unsuccessful attempts to conform to the rigid discipline of the Jesuit order he was released from his vows in 1667.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-la-salle-sieur-de (255 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search View - La Salle
		The search seeks the exact word or phrase that you type, so if you don’t find your choice, try searching for a key word in your topic or recheck the spelling of a word or name.
		La Salle was born on November 22, 1643, in Rouen, France, and educated by the Jesuits.
		One of La Salle’s supply ships, the Belle, sank in 1686 during a storm and was discovered in Matagorda Bay in 1995.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761565370__1/La_Salle.html (595 words)

	The Mariners' Museum \| EXPLORATION through the AGES
		Chesnel, P. History of Cavelier de La Salle, 1643-1687: explorations in the valleys of the Ohio, Illinois and Mississippi, taken from his letters, reports to King Louis XIV, also the reports of several of his associates, official acts and contemporaneous documents.
		La Salle, Robert Cavelier, sieur de, translation by Melville B. Anderson Relation of the discoveries and voyages of Cavelier de La Salle from 1679 to 1681, the official narrative Chicago: Caxton Club, 1901 (F1030.5.L3)
		Cavelier, Jean Relation du voyage enterpris par feu M. Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle, pour déouvrir dans le golfe du Mexique l'embouchure du Fleuve de Missisipy / par son frèe M. Cavelier, prêre de St. Sulpice, l'un des compagnons de ce voyage.
	www.mariner.org /exploration/?type=explorer&id=32&bibliography=true (560 words)

	Musée virtuel de la Nouvelle-France : Cavelier de La Salle
		René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle est né le 21 novembre 1643 à Rouen, en Normandie, dans une famille riche et bourgeoise.
		Le 27 mars 1667, René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle est libre.
		En 1673, le gouverneur Louis de Buade de Frontenac délègue Cavelier de La Salle en mission au lac Ontario où ce dernier convoque une réunion des chefs des tribus iroquoises qui l'autorisent à construire un fort à Cataracoui (fort Frontenac).
	www.civilization.ca /vmnf/explor/lasal_f2.html (1014 words)

	METIS CULTURE 1685-1699
		January 19: (I)-Rene Robert Cavelier de La Salle (1643-1687) and his colonists arrived at Matagorda Bay (Texas), claiming it to be an outlet of the Mississippi River.
		July: Due to (I)-Rene Robert Cavelier de La Salle's (1643-1687) incompetence and paranoia, most of the supplies are lost, the Indian (Karankawa) are alienated and the colony faces starvation.
		April: (I)- Rene Robert Cavelier de La Salle (1643-1687), the would be Jesuit, fur trader, explorer and intriguer, with 20 men, set out to seek help at Fort St Louis des Illinois.
	www3.telus.net /public/dgarneau/metis3b.htm (12267 words)

	MavicaNET - La Salle, Robert Cavelier, Sieur de (1643—87) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Sieur de La Salle, explorer, was born in St. Herbland parish, Rouen, France, on November 22, 1643, the son of Catherine Geeset and Jean Cavelier.
		Cavelier was a wealthy wholesale merchant and "Master of the Brotherhood of Notre-Dame."
		Whether or not he was educated with a view to entering the Society of Jesus is a matter of doubt, though some religious order he must have subsequently joined, for to this fact is assigned the forfeiture of his estates.
	www.mavicanet.com /lite/nor/35353.html (459 words)

	Explorers of Canada, Part XV: Sieur de la Salle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is not so much a Canadian explorer as an American explorer as most of his exploration was done on the Mississippi and the Gulf of Mexico, but since that is territory he extended for France and Canada belonged to France we'll just count him anyway.
		René Robert Cavelier was born in the St. Herbland parish of Rouen inFrance, November 22, 1643.
		Cavelier assumed the name Sieur de La Salle from his family estate near Rouen.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/life_in_canada/86240 (511 words)

	Rene-Robert Cavelier, sieur de La Salle -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		French explorer in North America, who led an expedition down the Illinois and Mississippi rivers and claimed all the region watered by the Mississippi and its tributaries for Louis XIV of France, naming the region Louisiana.”; A few years later, in a luckless expedition seeking the mouth of the Mississippi, he…
		Franciscan missionary who, with the celebrated explorer René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, penetrated the Great Lakes in 1679 to the region of Illinois and wrote the first published description of the country.
		The father of the great Louisiana Territory was the French explorer René Robert Cavelier, sieur de La Salle.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9046674 (808 words)

	AllRefer.com - La Salle, Robert Cavelier, sieur de (Explorers, Travelers, And Conquerors) - Encyclopedia
		La Salle, Robert Cavelier, sieur de, Explorers, Travelers, And Conquerors
		La Salle, Robert Cavelier, sieur de[rOber´ kAvulyA´ syOr du lA sAl´] Pronunciation Key, 1643–87, French explorer in North America, one of the most celebrated explorers and builders of New France.
		Original narratives are translated in I. Cox, The Journeys of RenE Robert Cavelier, Sieur da la Salle (2 vol., 1922; repr.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/L/LaSalleR.html (675 words)

	New Catholic Dictionary: Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		New Catholic Dictionary: Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle
		At the age of twenty-three he went to Canada as an adventurer and trader.
		Later he attempted to found a French colony near the mouth of the Mississippi, but was assassinated by mutineers.
	www.catholic-forum.com /saints/ncd03523.htm (106 words)

	Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, French explorer
		In 1669, the French explorer Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, became the first European to see the Ohio River.
		Since the 1950's, the federal government has worked with the states bordering the river to build 19 dam-canal structures that control most flooding on the Ohio.
		Louisiana was named by the French explorer Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle.
	www.laughtergenealogy.com /bin/histprof/misc/cavelier.html (278 words)

	La Salle Monument (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Lee W. Woodard discovered that Rene Robert Cavelier De La Salle was assassinated at the juncture of Fourche Maligne and Poteau rivers in eastern Oklahoma.
		It tells the nearby Death Locations of Famous French Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle and six others.
		He had moved to Heavener, OK, home of "The Runestone," a huge slab of stone upon which is a carved an old and obsolete alphabetic script, about which there had been much controversy and uncertainty.
	www.lasallemonument.com (604 words)

	La Salle, Robert Cavelier, sieur de on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		La Salle, Robert Cavelier, sieur de on Encyclopedia.com
		Bibliography: Original narratives are translated in I. Cox, The Journeys of René Robert Cavelier, Sieur da la Salle (2 vol., 1922; repr.
		Pictures and Maps for: La Salle, Robert Cavelier, sieur de
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/L/LaS1alleR1.asp (870 words)

	Commemorating French Exploration in Wisconsin
		It was during this voyage that, on April 9, 1682, La Salle succeeded in canoeing down the Mississippi River and reached the Gulf of Mexico.
		Tracing the Mississippi from its joining with the Illinois River to its mouth in the Gulf of Mexico, La Salle thus compIeted the exploration of this mighty river which had begun with the expeditions of his countrymen Louis Jolliet and Father Marquette.
		Today, 300 years later, we should take this opportunity to remember Rená Robert Cavelier, Sieur La Salle, as well as his fellow Frenchmen, who was so vital to the exploration and set- tlement of the New World.
	www.uwgb.edu /wisfrench/library/history/congress.htm (758 words)

	Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle was a French explorer.
		He was sent by King Louis XIV to travel south from Canada and sail down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico.
		The rest of the expedition made it to Montreal in 1688, but those at the fort were killed by the Karankawa Indians.
	www.pwcs.edu /i-tech/TLCF/EarlyExploration/Rene_Robert_Cavelier_Sieur_de_la_LaSalle.htm (268 words)

	La Salle - Deception (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In 1673, René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle, became an emissary to the Governor of New France, Louis de Buade de Frontenac.
		La Salle was sent to Cataracoui (or Cataraqui, present-day Kingston) in order to obtain permission from the Iroquois to build a French fort there.
		La Salle was prepared to become the famous explorer he had always dreamed of becoming.
	www3.sympatico.ca /goweezer/canada/z16lasalle3.htm (221 words)

	USA Today (Magazine): Excavating 300-year-old French ship. (excavatio... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Excavation of famed French explorer Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle's ship, the Belle, is under way off the Texas coast.
		The shipwreck site is the first in the hemisphere to use a cofferdam -- a watertight structure designed to keep liquid out of an enclosed area -- in deep waters.
		All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:19496195&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (500 words)

	Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, French explorer
		In 1669, the French explorer Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, became the first European to see the Ohio River.
		Since the 1950's, the federal government has worked with the states bordering the river to build 19 dam-canal structures that control most flooding on the Ohio.
		Louisiana was named by the French explorer Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle.
	franklaughter.tripod.com /cgi-bin/histprof/misc/cavelier.html (281 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Among the burghers of Rouen was the old and rich family of the Caveliers.
		In 1643 was born at Rouen Robert Cavelier, better known by the designation of La Salle.
		Family papers of the Caveliers, examined by the Abbe Faillon, and copies of some of which he has sent to me, lead to the same conclusion.
	www.webroots.org /library/usahist/tdotgw01.html (16893 words)

	new world explorers cavelier de la salle
		__ "René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, or Robert de LaSalle (November 22, 1643 – March 19, 1687) was a French explorer.
		He explored the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, the Mississippi River, and the Gulf of Mexico, and claimed the entire Mississippi basin for France." You will find an encyclopedic article with links to related materials.
		__ "Already well known as an explorer and fur trader in Canada, Rene Robert Cavelier, Seiur de LaSalle wound his way in 1682 down the Mississippi, claiming the entire Mississippi watershed in the name of France." You can also access the archaeological report detailing the discovery of one of his ships.
	www.archaeolink.com /new_world_explorers_cavelier_de_.htm (271 words)

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