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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. [27]
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
In 1870, the fifth Reconstruction parish, Cameron, was created, which was followed by the sixth, seventh, and eighth parishes (Red River, Vernon, and Webster, respectively) in 1871. The ninth parish to be formed under Radical Republican rule was Lincoln, named after the late president and formed in 1873.
Louisiana (French: Louisiane) or French Louisiana [6] (Louisiane française) was an administrative district of New France.In 1682 the French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle erected a cross near the mouth of the Mississippi River and claimed the whole of the drainage basin of the Mississippi River in the name of King Louis XIV, naming it "Louisiana".
After the Duke of York (later King James II of England). Named by King Charles II of England, James II's brother. [77] The name "York" is derived from its Latin name Eboracum (via Old English Eoforwic and then Old Norse Jórvík), apparently borrowed from Brythonic Celtic *eborakon, which probably meant 'Yew-Tree Estate'. [78
De Soto claiming the Mississippi, as depicted in the United States Capitol rotunda. Louisiana (Spanish: La Luisiana, [la lwiˈsjana]), [1] or the Province of Louisiana (Provincia de La Luisiana), was a province of New Spain from 1762 to 1801 primarily located in the center of North America encompassing the western basin of the Mississippi River plus New Orleans.
Pioche, named after François Louis Alfred Pioche, a financier who purchased the town in 1869. Primeaux; Reno (named after Major General Jesse Lee Reno, a Union officer killed in the American Civil War. Reno's family name was a modified version of the French surname "Renault")
Eight out of fifty U.S. States are named after European royalty, seven of which were monarchs or consorts. [1] Georgia - King George II of Great Britain. Louisiana - King Louis XIV of France. Maryland - Queen Henrietta Maria of England. New York - James, Duke of York. Later became King James II of England. [2] North Carolina - King Charles IX ...