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Nevertheless, in 1685 the young Sieur de La Salle landed at Matagorda Bay, Texas, some 600 miles west of his target the Mississippi River The few colonists

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Spanish officials learned that France, their European rival, had established a fort on the coast of Texas In the winter of 1681–1682, René Robert Cavelier, Sieur

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Sailing from France in 1684 with nearly three hundred settlers and soldiers, he failed to find the Mississippi and built a small fort on the gulf coast of Tejas ( Texas)

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exploration and settlement in Texas Materials • Transparency of “French Settlement in Texas Questions” • Student copies of “La Salle and Fort St Louis

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keywords French, exile, French in Texas, French Colony It was through an error of judgment that the French explorer Robert René Cavelier de la Salle and his