Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sier de La Salle

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Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sier de La Salle
French Explorer
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Life

• Born in France in 1643
• In 1666 sailed to New France where he was given
  land.
• Wanted to find a way to get to China so he set
  out on several expeditions.

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No route

• As La Salle realized there wasnt a route to
  China, he changed his reason for exploring.
• In 1685, during his 2nd exploration into Texas,
  he explored to help France gain more land. When
  he reached Texas, he set up French forts in Texas

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• Most of what we know about La Salle we learned
  from a man named Pierre Margry, who published a
  work called, Découvertes et établissements des
  Français dans l'ouest et dans le sud de
  l'Amérique septentrionale. Margry was a French
  historian who documented the history of France in
  North America.

Margry took letters, journal entries, and reports
that were written about the French exploration of
North America and created the French document.
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Effects of French and Spanish Exploration

• Spain worried French would claim more land in
  Texas.
• Spain decided to build Missions to protect Texas
  land from other countries

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Sources

• http//www.baumanrarebooks.com/rare-books/margry-p
  ierre/decouvertes-et/12377.aspx
• http//www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/page/l/
  lasalle.shtml
• http//paulinespiratesandprivateers.blogspot.com/2
  012/04/people-man-who-would-build-empires.html
• http//www.texasbeyondhistory.net/belle/index.html
  
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RenC3A9-Robert_Cave
  lier,_Sieur_de_La_Salle