La Salle: A Perilous Odyssey from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico

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Rene-Robert Cavalier, Sieur de la Salle (1643-1687) used to be the primary man to navigate—with extreme difficulty—the Mississippi River from the Great Lakes region to the Gulf of Mexico, thereby organising France’s claim on a swath of the North American continent equal to half the scale of Europe, which La Salle named Louisiana. Johnson’s new biography of the dauntless explorer provides a detailed panorama of the European nations’ efforts to keep an eye on North The us, and the consequences these endeavors had on the way forward for the continent. Johnson also makes use of new information regarding La Salle’s final expedition, by which he used to be killed by his own men after a failed attempt to succeed in the mouth of the Mississippi from the Caribbean. How this veteran explorer ended up hundreds of miles off course, for centuries a mystery among historians, is explained here in convincing detail.

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