ReneRobert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle

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Rene-Robert Cavelier,Sieur de la Salle
By Priscilla Martinez Lianny Aguiar7-3
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About His Life

• He was granted land on the Saint Lawrence River
  and became a trader.
• La Salle had a ship named ,The Belle, which
  shipwrecked in 1686 during a storm and was found
  in Matagorda Bay in 1995.
• La Salle was never married to anyone and never
  had any kids.
• He later met an Italian explorer, Henri de Tonty
  who became his associate.

• Was born in Rouen, France on November 22, 1643.
• He immigrated to Canada in 1666 when he was 23.
• French explorer who navigated the length of the
  Mississippi River and claimed the Louisiana
  region for France.
• It is still a mystery to be if he had any
  siblings.

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His Explorations

• La Salle became a famous explorer when he
  navigated the length of the Mississippi River and
  claimed all the land drained by the river for
  Louis XIV, King of France, and named the region
  Louisiana.
• He then commanded construction in the new
  territory.
• Because of his capabilities, French colonial
  governor, Louis de Baude, comte de Palluau de
  Frontenac, appointed him commander of Fort
  Frontenac, then being built as a trading center.
• He later claimed to have discovered the Ohio
  River in 1671.
• He first explored the region south of Lakes
  Ontario and Lake Erie.
• From 1669 to 1670 he explored the region south of
  Lakes Ontario and Erie, and he later claimed to
  have discovered the Ohio River in 1671.

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His Explorations

• In 1674 La Salle was sent to Franceas Frontenacs
  representative to justify the building of the
  fort.
• His mission was successful and he received a
  patent of nobility.
• In 1684 he sailed from France with a fleet of 4
  ships to establish a colony at the mouth of the
  Mississippi River.
• During that journey they made a mistake and in
  1678 he set out from Canada with a crew of 17 men
  to procure help for the few members of the
  original expedition.
• His men mutinied,however, and he was shot near
  the Trinity River on March 19,1687.
• The men who survived the mutiny landed on the
  Texas shore,probably on the Lavaca Bay.