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LOUISIANA. |
AMONG the first visitors
to Louisiana were the Spanish
men-at-arms of De Soto's
expedition. In 1682 the brave
Cavalier de la Salle floated down
the Mississippi from the Falls of
St. Anthony to the Gulf, and took
possession of the country. Four
years later La Salle came from
France to occupy Louisiana, but
his fleet failed to find the
Mississippi, and landed on the
Texan coast, where he died and
where most of his men starved to
death. In 1699 another expedition
was sent from France to Louisiana
under Iberville. It landed at
what is now Ocean Springs,
Mississippi, and established
there a settlement named Biloxi.
Iberville and his brother
Bienville explored the
Mississippi River from Natchez to
the Gulf. The first settlement in
Louisiana was made by Iberville
seventy miles up the Mississippi,
in 1700, as a military colony, to
prevent the English from
ascending the river. Bienville
was appointed governor in 1718,
and moved the settlement from
Biloxi. New Orleans was founded
the same year with sixty-eight
inhabitants. Napoleon sold the
province of Louisiana to the
United States in 1803. In
January, 1814, General
Packenham's British army of
14,450 men landed at New Orleans.
The invaders made an assault on
General Jackson's lines and were
repulsed. |
In
April, 1862, Farragut and
forty-seven American war vessels,
after a magnificent naval fight,
sunk the Confederate iron-clads
and gun-boats in the Mississippi.
General Butler soon followed with
Union troops, and they thereafter
occupied New Orleans. |
ILLUSTRATIONS. |
Arcadians,
1775; Bienville, Founder of New
Orleans, 1718;
Battle of New Orleans, 1814; La
Salle at the
Mouth of the Mississippi, 1682. |
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