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	La Salle, RenÃ©-Robert Cavelier de
		La Salle, René-Robert Cavelier de, aspirant jésuite, trafiquant de fourrures, explorateur, intrigant et découvreur du delta du Mississippi (Rouen, France, 21 nov. 1643 -- assassiné au Texas, 19 mars 1687).
		En 1658, La Salle commence son noviciat à la Société de Jésus.
		Des dissensions dans son groupe et à la base provoquent des désertions et des meurtres et, finalement, l'assassinat de La Salle.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=F1ARTF0004405 (448 words)

	René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		La Salle was born in Rouen and was briefly a member of the Jesuit religious order, taking his vows in 1660.
		La Salle captured the mutineers on Lake Ontario and eventually rendezvoued with Tonti at Mackinaw.
		La Salle returned with a large expedition designed to establish a French colony on the Gulf of Mexico, at the mouth of the Mississippi River.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Cavelier_de_La_Salle (894 words)

	Texas Treasures - Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle - Texas State Library
		Robert Cavalier, Sieur de La Salle, was born in Rouen, France in 1643.
		La Salle was soon captivated by the opportunities available in the largely unexplored lands of North America.
		La Salle’s fleet of four ships and 280 men and colonists was plagued with problems from the start, culminating with the failure to find the mouth of the Mississippi, landing instead at Matagorda Bay in present-day Texas on February 20, 1685.
	www.tsl.state.tx.us /treasures/giants/lasalle/lasalle-01.html (613 words)

	The Virtual Museum of New-France: Cavelier de La Salle
		René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle was born at Rouen, in Normandy, on the twenty-first of November, 1643.
		De Casson also brought along an invaluable companion, the Abbé René de Bréhan de Galinée, whose task was to draw maps of their discoveries.
		La Salle was back again in the colony on the fifteenth of September, 1678, with some thirty greenhorns from France, among them Father Louis Hennepin of the order of Récollets.
	www.civilization.ca /vmnf/explor/lasal_e2.html (1045 words)

	AllRefer.com - La Salle, Robert Cavelier, sieur de (Explorers, Travelers, And Conquerors) - Encyclopedia
		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.
		La Salle sent Michel Aco and Father Hennepin on an expedition to the upper Mississippi, while he himself went back to Fort Frontenac for supplies.
		La Salle was deprived of his authority by the new governor in 1683 and went to France, leaving Tonti in the Illinois country.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/L/LaSalleR.html (675 words)

	Texas Historical Commission
		Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, was born in France in 1643.
		La Salle finally reached the point where the Illinois River and the Mississippi joined, but instead of exploring the river, he returned to the fort, where his friend Tonty was in danger.
		La Salle's opponents doubted the feasibility of his plan, but Louis XIV saw it as an opportunity to strike out against Spain, with whom France was at war.
	www.thc.state.tx.us /lasalle/laslife.html (1115 words)

	MSN Encarta - La Salle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		La Salle was born on November 22, 1643, in Rouen, France, and educated by the Jesuits.
		La Salle subsequently conceived a plan for exploring and trading farther west, and in 1677 he again visited France to secure royal approval of his scheme.
		La Salle subsequently commenced construction of forts in the new territory.
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	Robert Cavelier La Salle
		In 1669 La Salle sold his new estates, and set out on his tour of western exploration in company with two Sulpician priests, who were bound for the upper lakes.
		La Salle made a last and desperate attempt to reach the Mississippi, resolved to ascend it and bring back relief from Canada to the perishing colonists.
		La Salle was of a shy, proud, and reserved nature, beloved by a few intimates, and greatly liked and respected by the Indians, but awakening neither enthusiasm nor affection in those under his command.
	www.famousamericans.net /robertcavelierlasalle (3105 words)

	Sieur de La Salle, Rene-Robert Cavelier
		La Salle was born in Rouen, France, in 1643.
		La Salle settled in the colony of Montreal.
		Near the mouth of the great river, La Salle placed a French marker claiming for France all the land bordering the Mississippi and its tributaries, or branches.
	www.harcourtschool.com /activity/biographies/lasalle (748 words)

	Encyclopedia: Robert Cavelier de La Salle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (November 22, 1643 - March 19, 1687) was a French cleric and explorer.
		He received land on the western end on the Isle of Montreal which became known as "La Chine", in recognition of La Salle's desire to find a route to China.
		On April 9, at the mouth of the Mississipi River, near present-day Venice, Louisiana, La Salle buried an engraved plate and a cross, claiming the territory for France.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Robert-Cavelier-de-La-Salle (878 words)

	La Salle Monument
		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.
		The grave of La Salle expedition drowning victim, Petit Jean De Marne (Marle), is at the East end of Petit Jean mountain of Arkansas, and became the basis for Arkansas legends of Petit Jean.
		La Salle and his men were encroaching upon Spanish American Terrain (even when penetrating to the Poteau and Arkansas River Valleys).
	www.lasallemonument.com (604 words)

	Musée virtuel de la Nouvelle-France : Cavelier de La Salle
		Par dérision, La Salle étant obsédé par la recherche du passage vers la Chine, cette seigneurie sera surnommée « La Chine ».
		Au mois de septembre, le groupe atteint la rive nord du lac Érié.
		De retour en France en 1677, il soudoie un personnage d'influence et présente un rapport flatteur et mensonger des découvertes qu'il s'attribue.
	www.civilization.ca /vmnf/explor/lasal_f2.html (1014 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Rene-Robert-Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle
		Upon his return, La Salle rebuilt the fort, launched upon the Niagara River the "Griffin", a forty-five ton schooner with five guns, in which, with Hennepin, a Franciscan, and the Neapolitan Henri de Tonty, he set sail in the autumn of 1678, passed over Lakes
		After waiting through the winter for the return of the "Griffin", La Salle, leaving the faithful Tonty in charge of the fort, resolved to return one thousand miles on foot to Montreal, accompanied by four Frenchmen and an Indian guide.
		La Salle's schemes of empire and of trade were far too vast for his own generation to accomplish, though it was along the lines that he projected that France pursued her colonial policy in the New World in the eighteenth century until finally overthrown by the
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09009b.htm (802 words)

	Sieur de la Salle, Robert Cavalier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Sieur de la Salle, Robert Cavalier, was born on Nov.21/1643 at Rouen, France.
		Robert traveled to Lake Michigan in 1679, Illinois county in 1680, and from the Illinois River down to the mouth of the Mississippi in 1682.
		France expected La Salle to lay claim to Louisiana (stretching from Illinois county to the Gulf of Mexico and into New Spain [Mexico]) In return he was supplied with ships and men so he could sail into the Gulf of Mexico, invade Spanish territory, and empty mines that were thought to be there.
	www.plpsd.mb.ca /amhs/history/sdls.html (412 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.
		La Salle missed the mouth of the Mississippi and landed his colonists at Matagorda Bay on the Texas coast on February 20, 1685, believing the Mississippi near.
		Because of La Salle the United States was able to register a claim to Texas as part of the Louisiana purchase; the boundary question between Spain and the United States was complicated until the Adams-Onís Treaty of 1819.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/LL/fla4.html (914 words)

	Cavelier De La salle - L'expansion dans toutes les directions - XVIIe siècle - Les Voies de la découverte
		La Salle abandonne l'expédition en cours de route et va chasser avec des Amérindiens, puis il rentre à Montréal avec des fourrures.
		Il envoie de cet endroit les résultats de son expédition à de la Barre, qui a succédé à Frontenac en tant que gouverneur et qui lui est hostile.
		Jean Cavelier exige de taire le décès de son frère et fait croire aux autorités que l'expédition a atteint l'embouchure du Mississippi.
	www.collectionscanada.ca /explorateurs/h24-1480-f.html (1248 words)

	la Salle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		La Salle returned to the area with a larger party in early 1678 and camped on the Niagara River at Lake Ontario.
		Accompanying La Salle were three priests, including Father Hennepin, who became the party's scribe and the first to publicize the majesty of Niagara falls.
		La Salle and his party set sail upriver to the section of Buffalo now known as Black Rock.
	ah.phpwebhosting.com /h/lasalle (305 words)

	René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle: North American Explorer - Southcentral USA
		René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle was born Nov.21, 1643 at Rouen, France.
		La Salle began exploring North America and in 1673 when he became the commander of Fort Frontenac.
		La Salle never managed to realize his dream of finding the Mouth of the Mississippi from the Gulf of Mexico.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art24020.asp (581 words)

	Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		La Salle named the entire Mississippi basin Louisiana, in honor of the King, and claimed it for France on April 9, 1682.
		La Salle made many exploring trips during the years 1671 to 1673.
		La Salle returned to France in 1677, getting permission form the King to explore the area between Florida, Mexico and Canada.
	www.pwcs.edu /i-tech/TLCF/EarlyExploration/Rene_Robert_Cavelier_Sieur_de_la_LaSalle.htm (268 words)

	METIS CULTURE 1685-1699
		La Salle was finally shot at point blank range after three of his allies were killed before him.
		Pierre de Liette is at an Illinois village with Francois Dauphin/Daupin, sieur de Laforest (1649-1714).
		La Potherie says he is the first of the Dakota to visit New France, along with their allies the Ojibwa Chief Chingouabe in 1695.
	www3.telus.net /public/dgarneau/metis3b.htm (12212 words)

	Attempts to expand New France. (from La Salle, Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Settled in 1830 and named for the explorer Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, its growth was stimulated by the Illinois and Michigan Canal (1848) and the arrival in the 1850s of the Illinois Central and Rock Island railroads.
		Vérendrye, Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de la
		Sallé anticipated the late–18th-century reforms of Jean-Georges Noverre by integrating the music, costumes, and dance styles of her...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-4021?tocId=4021 (848 words)

	Garden Marco Polo and Garden Robert Cavelier de la Salle
		The Garden Robert Cavelier de la Salle is named to honor the French explorer Cavelier (1643-1687) who explored the Great Lakes region of North America, the Gulf of Mexico and the Mississippi River.
		The area of the Garden Marco Polo and the Garden Robert Cavelier de la Salle was previously occupied by the southern end of the Castle Vauvert, built by King Robert le Pieux, son of Hugues Capet.
		In 1867, the two gardens, the Garden Marco Polo and the Garden Robert Cavelier de la Salle, were created by architect Chalgrin between the Garden of the Luxembourg and the Observatory of Paris.
	www.paris-walking-tours.com /gardenmarcopolo.html (703 words)

	Dallas Historical Society - Bound For Texas: French Exploration
		Robert Cavelier, Sier de La Salle descended the Mississippi River to its mouth on the Gulf and proclaimed it the property of France in 1682.
		Finally, in a mutiny, La Salle was killed by his own troops, the survivors returning to French controlled Canada.
		Alonso de Leon, arriving at the ruins of Fort St. Louis in 1689 discovered two of La Salle's men, thus learning the fate of the expedition.
	www.dallashistory.org /history/texas/french_exploration.htm (155 words)

	La Salle, Robert Cavelier, sieur de — FactMonster.com
		After La Salle's departure Tonti was attacked by hostile Iroquois and was forced to flee the settlement.
		La Salle was deprived of his authority by the new governor in 1683 and went to France, leaving Tonti in the Illinois country.
		With three of his ships La Salle reached the Gulf of Mexico; but because of the sandy sameness of the coastline he was unable to find the Mississippi.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0828919.html (697 words)

	La Salle shipwreck yields skeleton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		La Belle, used by Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle, in his ill-fated foray into Texas in search of the mouth of the Mississippi River, was lost in a winter storm in 1686.
		So desperate were La Salle's men, he said, that they quenched their thirst with the only available liquids: brandy and wine.
		"La Salle was trying to establish a colony, so we would expect to find provisions to support that venture.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/metropolitan/96/11/08/skeleton.html (686 words)

	European Explorers in the Mississippi Valley
		De Soto died in 1542 and was succeeded by Luis Moscoso, who explored farther to the southwest into Texas, encountering Caddos and perhaps others, before eventually returning to the Mississippi River.
		The settlement fails, most of the inhabitants including La Salle die or are killed, but a few men lead by Henri Joutel in 1687 escape overland to the Arkansas River.
		La Harpe has difficulty obtaining supplies and assistance from the Quapaws at Osotouy — although their hunting territory extends to the Little Rock vicinity, Osotuoy is their northwesternmost settlement and they apparently fear enemies further up the Arkansas Valley.
	www.uark.edu /depts/contact/explorers.html (1808 words)

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