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Louisiana was named after Louis XIV, King of France from 1643 to 1715. When René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle claimed the territory drained by the Mississippi River for France, he named it La Louisiane. [28] The suffix –ana (or –ane) is a Latin suffix that can refer to "information relating to a particular individual, subject, or place."
Louisiana seceded from the Union on January 26, 1861, joining the Confederate States of America. New Orleans, the largest city in the entire South at the time, and strategically important port city, was taken by Union troops on April 25, 1862. After the defeat of the Confederate Army in 1865, Louisiana would enter the Reconstruction era (1865
But there is no connection; the name for the Appaloosa breed is derived from Palouse, a river named by the Nez Perce Northwestern Plains Indians.) After the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 to France who had regained it in 1800, settlers continued to migrate here from St. Martinville. LeBon, Prejean, Thibodaux, Esprit, Nezat, Hebert, Babineaux ...
Named for local river rapids (French: rapides) 126,260: 1,362 sq mi (3,528 km 2) Red River Parish: 081: Coushatta: 1871: from parts of Bienville Parish, Bossier Parish, Caddo Parish and Natchitoches Parish. Named for the Red River, which is part of the Mississippi River watershed: 7,356: 402 sq mi (1,041 km 2) Richland Parish: 083: Rayville: 1868
Grasse River (named after François Joseph Paul de Grasse, a French admiral who decisively defeated the British fleet in the Battle of the Chesapeake in September 1781 during the American Revolution) Huguenot; Jacques Cartier State Park (park located along the St. Lawrence River and named after 16th-century French explorer Jacques Cartier) La ...
The Louisiana Territory included all of the land acquired by the United States in the Louisiana Purchase north of the 33rd parallel. The eastern boundary of the purchase, the Mississippi River, functioned as the territory's eastern limit. Its northern and western boundaries, however, were indefinite, and remained so throughout its existence.
Pearl River. Bogue Chitto River; The Rigolets. Lake St. Catherine. Lake Pontchartrain. Lacombe Bayou; Tchefuncte River. Bogue Falaya. Abita River; Tangipahoa River
Natchitoches was founded as a French outpost on the Red River for trade with Spanish-controlled Mexico; French traders settled there as early as 1699. The post was established near a village of Natchitoches Indians, after whom the city was named. Early settlers were French Catholic immigrants and creoles (originally meaning those ethnic French ...