Robert Remini
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 19 Sep
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But the New Englanders, on their part, won a great success.
After the French lost Acadia, they built a strong fortress on the island of Cape Breton.
To this, they gave the name of Lewisburg.
The New Englanders fitted out a great expedition and captured Lewisburg without much help from the English.
But at the close of the war, 1748, the fortress was given back to the French, to the disgust of the New Englanders.
94.
The French in the Mississippi Valley
The Spaniards had discovered the Mississippi and had explored its lower valley, but they had found no gold there and had abandoned the country.
It was left for French explorers more than 100 years later to rediscover the Great River and to explore it from its upper waters to the Gulf of Mexico.
The first Frenchman to sail down the river to its mouth was La Salle.
In 1681, with three canoes, he floated down the Mississippi until he reached a place where the Great River divided into three large branches.
He sent one canoe down each branch.
Returning, they all reported they had reached the open sea.
95.
Founding of Louisiana.
LaSalle named this immense region Louisiana in honor of the French king.
He soon led an expedition to plant a colony on the banks of the Mississippi.
Sailing into the Gulf of Mexico, he missed the mouth of the Mississippi and landed on the coast of Texas.
Misfortune after misfortune now fell on the unhappy expedition.
La Salle was murdered, the stores were destroyed, the Spaniards and Indians came and killed or captured nearly all the colonists.
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