Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Gulf” in alphabetic letter T, entry group 4, entry tonti-henri-chevalier-de of Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History:
... the mouth of the Mississippi to meet La Salle, and attempted a settlement of Europeans in Arkansas.
In 1685 he incited a force of Western Indians to attack the Senecas.
Again he went down to the Gulf to meet La Salle, and was again disappointed; and in 1699 he went down to meet Iberville, and remained in the Gulf region, dying in Fort St. Louis, Mobile, in September, 1704.
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