History of Ft. De Chartres
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the Spanish were the first Europeans to see the Mississippi, perhaps Alonso Alvarez de Pineda in 15 19 and certainly her Nando de Soto in 15 41. But French explorers from Canada, where the first Europeans to explore the Great River Lou easily A and father, Jacques Marquette, descended the Mississippi to the mouth of the Arkansas in 16 73. But when they learned the river emptied into the Gulf of Mexico rather than the Pacific, they returned north at 16 80 to run a robber, Qaeda LaSalle traveled down the Illinois River to the Mississippi and then followed that river to its mouth, naming the Mississippi River Valley, Louisiana, in honor of King Louis. The 15th. LaSalle later attempted to colonize the mouth of the Mississippi. But the expedition miscarried, ending in Texas, where disgruntled followers killed him and Indians destroyed the colony. In 16 99 Pierre Lim Wan D'Iberville established the first tentative French settlement in southern Louisiana at Biloxi. In the following years, the French established other settlements, first on the Gulf Coast and then increasingly centred on the Mississippi River. Meanwhile, French fur traders and missionaries from Canada moved down the river systems south of the Great Lakes into the areas of modern Illinois, Michigan and Indiana. In 16 96 missionaries first arrived at Cahokia, home of one of the tribes of Illinois Indians on the eastern side of the Mississippi near modern ST Louis. There they found for traders, mainly unlicensed Kourou DeBois, literally woods runners living among the Indians in the American bottom. The land the French Illinois country lip ie days. Illinois was an imprecisely defined area centred on the American bottom in the middle Mississippi Valley. A flood plain bordering the eastern side of the Mississippi River from Elton, Illinois. In the north to the cast Kaski, a river in the south, the northern portion from Elton Tuckahoe, Kia is less fertile and in places narrowly confined by limestone bluffs. The French did not settle there. During the Colonial period, the southern section from Cahokia to Cask Askia, was the Heartland of French settlement in the Illinois country Bluffs border the American bottom with steep vegetation. Client hills in the vicinity of Cahokia, sheer cliffs well over 100 feet in height, near 40 shot and low hills near the cast Chesky, a river. A few streams have carved steep ravines that give access to and from the plane beyond the bluffs, the width of the bottom land between river and bluffs, Berries being greatest near Cahokia and decreasing as one moves south in the area of fort to shout. The bottom land is about three miles wide. The soil of the American bottom consists of river deposits, often containing a significant amount of clay but generally fertile and moist unless drained. The bottom has swamps, and periodic shallow lakes appear in wet years. The bottom is hot and humid during the summer and often flooded when the Mississippi rises. Even today, despite large levies near the river would decays quickly in this environment. The Illinois country, in its broadest definition, also included the lower valleys of the Missouri, Illinois, Ohio and Wabash rivers and extended on the Missouri side of the Mississippi, some distance inland to the lead mining district. Around the modern towns of old mines and Patosi, these areas were less fertile and less densely settled by the French native peoples. When the French arrived late in the 17th century, the native people of the American bottom with the Illinois, whose name also appears in a number of other forms, such as Illiniwek, the Neo EC, Alinea, WEC, Alimi, WEC, Illiniwek and ERA Nowak. Illinois was the collective term for an alliance of four populace tribes. The Cahokia consolidated with the tomorrow UH, Michigan, MIA Cask, Askia and Peoria, and a number of smaller tribes that over the course of the 18th century largely disappeared. Merging into the larger tribes, the Illinois tribes shared an identical culture and a common language of the Algonquian group and their members, Often Inter married. The name Illinois seems to be derived from the Algonquin, meaning approximately he or she speaks correctly.