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The French first came to the New World as travelers seeking a route to the Pacific Ocean and wealth. Major French exploration of North America began under the rule of Francis I, King of France. In 1524, Francis sent Italian-born Giovanni da Verrazzano to explore the region between Florida and Newfoundland for a route to the Pacific Ocean.
Vincennes, Indiana (1 C, 27 P) Pages in category "French colonial settlements of Illinois Country" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total.
The Arkansas Post (French: Poste de Arkansea; Spanish: Puesto de Arkansas), formally the Arkansas Post National Memorial, was the first European settlement in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain and present-day U.S. state of Arkansas. In 1686, Henri de Tonti established it on behalf of Louis XIV of France for the purpose of trading with the Quapaw ...
Beginning around 11,700 B.C.E., the first indigenous people inhabited the area now known as Arkansas after crossing today's Bering Strait, formerly Beringia. [3] The first people in modern-day Arkansas likely hunted woolly mammoths by running them off cliffs or using Clovis points, and began to fish as major rivers began to thaw towards the end of the last great ice age. [4]
The community of St. Philippe quickly produced a surplus, which it sold to settlers downriver in New Orleans, as well as other French settlements such as Arkansas Post, where farming was less successful. Destructive seasonal flooding finally forced the French inhabitants of St. Philippe and Fort de Chartres to abandon the area before 1765.
The Massachusetts Bay Colony French settlements and forts in the so-called Illinois Country, 1763, which encompassed parts of the modern day states of Illinois, Missouri, Indiana and Kentucky) A 1775 map of the German Coast, a historical region of present-day Louisiana located above New Orleans on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River Vandalia was the name of a proposed British colony ...
Fort Louis may refer to several historic French settlements including: Fort Louis (La Rochelle), built by Louis XIII in 1620. Fort Louis (Pondicherry), French fort in Pondicherry, destroyed in 1761. Fort Louis, Senegal, a major French trading post on the Senegal River in West Africa. Fort Louis de La Louisiane, the name of Mobile, Alabama ...
Vincennes, Indiana (1 C, 27 P) Pages in category "French colonial settlements of Upper Louisiana" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total.