02/20/1685 René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle

Submitted by acalefas on 15 January 2016 - 6:33pm
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20 February 1685
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René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, intending to establish a colony near the mouth of the Mississippi River, lands with 200 surviving colonists at Matagorda Bay on the Texas coast, believing the Mississippi near. He establishes Fort St. Louis.

1685