Sieur diberville expedition 1699 romano

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InSpanish explorer Hernando de Soto and men landed on the sieur diberville expedition 1699 romano coast of present-day Florida. The surviving members of the expedition, led by Luis de Moscoso, journeyed downstream in seven small boats, passing by West Baton Rouge Parish lands and finally exiting the mouth of the Mississippi River in the summer of This included the entire river from its mouth to its source and all the streams flowing into it on both sides — and, of course, the land that now makes up West Baton Rouge Parish.

While Tonti was travelling down the Mississippi, he wrote a letter to La Salle on a piece of tree bark, which he left with the Quinipissa Tribe. InIberville and a party of 50 men traveled upstream from the mouth of the Mississippi and eventually arrived at the bluffs which are the location of the present-day city of Baton Rouge. He died at Havana of yellow fever.

He was capitaine de vaisseau in the French navy and was said to have been as "military as his sword. Page Discussion. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. In other projects. Wikidata item. In Marchhe entered the Birdfoot Delta. It was only after meeting some Indians who remembered La Salle that he was sure that this was the Mississippi. Having achieved his first aim and finding no good sites in the delta, he built a temporary fort Fort Maurepas at Ocean Springs, Mississippileft a garrison of 81 men, and returned to France.

On his second voyage, he reached Biloxi in January He built a second "Fort Maurepas" 40 miles up the Mississippi River. On his return journey, he is said to have stopped at New York City and sold 9, furs that coureurs des bois had given him, in preference to hauling them back to Montreal. This story illustrates the benefits of the future New Orleans area as a portthe size of the French presence on the Mississippi at this early date, and d'Iberville's questionable business practices.

On his third voyage in Februaryhe built a fort at Mobile. Here, Henri de Tonti aided him in establishing good relations with the Indians. He left Louisiana for the last time in April D'Iberville had contracted malaria on the Gulf coast, and both his health and judgment seem to have deteriorated. Early inhe left France in command of twelve vessels.

From 1 to 22 April, d'Iberville and Chavagnac devastated the island of Nevis and took much of the population prisoner. He went to Havanawhere he was involved in planning an expedition against Charles Town, Carolina an English colonial settlementwhen he died suddenly, perhaps of yellow feverin July, After his death, his estate became involved in an inquiry that dragged on for more than thirty years.

Sieur diberville expedition 1699 romano

D'Iberville had acquired a large fortune by uncertain means. The accounts of the West Indian expedition were hopelessly disorganized; there were accusations of embezzlement. D'Iberville was perhaps the first great soldier born in Canada. Students of the art of war may see his career as an example of the importance of following up after a victory, for he won all his battles but never was able to consolidate what he had won.

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