La Salle He was the first European to sail down the Mississippi River from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico... http: //library.thinkquest.org/J002678F/la_salle.ht...
La Salle and Hennepin 1678-1681 The explorer René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle, who discovered the mouths of the Mississippi... http: //nlc-bnc.ca/dl/1999/passages/salle-e.htm...
La Salle and Tonty 1678-1688 In 1680, after the failure of his first attempt, La Salle retraced his steps and made preparations for a second expedition http: //nlc-bnc.ca/dl/1999/passages/tonty-e.htm...
La Vérendrye and Sons 1727-1743 In the early 1720s French explorers still knew relatively little about the interior of the North American continent... http: //nlc-bnc.ca/dl/1999/passages/veren-e.htm...
Lafitau 1724 Joseph-François Lafitau, a Jesuit missionary and the discoverer of ginseng in North America... http: //nlc-bnc.ca/dl/1999/passages/lafit-e.htm...
Lahontan Lahontan embarked for Canada in 1683 with a contingent of navy troops.... http: //nlc-bnc.ca/dl/1999/passages/laho2-e.htm...
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