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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bienville, Jean Baptiste le moyne, 1680-1701 (search)
ccessfully to cultivate the land by Indian labor, Bienville proposed to the government to exchange Indians for negroes in the West Indies, at the rate of three Indians for one negro. Bienville remained at the head of the colony until 1713, when Cadillac arrived, as governor, with a commission for the former as lieutenant-governor. Quarrels between them ensued. Cadillac was superseded in 1717 by Epinay, and Bienville received the decoration of the Cross of St. Louis. In 1718 he founded the ciCadillac was superseded in 1717 by Epinay, and Bienville received the decoration of the Cross of St. Louis. In 1718 he founded the city of New Orleans; and war breaking out between France and Spain, he seized Pensacola and put his brother Chateaugay in command there. He was summoned to France in 1724 to answer charges, where he remained until 1733, when he was sent back to Louisiana as governor, with the rank of lieutenant-general. Having made unsuccessful expeditions against the Chickasaws, he was superseded in 1743, and returned to France, where he died in 1765.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Louisiana, (search)
1 De Muys, appointed governor-general of Louisiana, dies on his way from France, and Bienville continues in command......1707 King grants to Sieur Antony Crozat exclusive trading rights in Louisiana for ten years......Sept. 14, 1712 Lamothe Cadillac arrives from France as governor, and appoints Bienville lieutenant......May 17, 1713 Bienville makes peace with the Choctaw Indians......1715 Governor Cadillac, in search of silver, goes to the Illinois country and incurs the enmity ofGovernor Cadillac, in search of silver, goes to the Illinois country and incurs the enmity of the Natchez Indians......1715 Bienville ascends the Mississippi to subject the Natchez, and establishes Fort Rosalie in their country......April, 1716 M. de l'epinay arrives as governor from France......March 9, 1717 Crozat surrenders his trading privilege to the King......Aug. 23, 1717 Company of the West chartered to foster and preserve the colony......Sept. 6, 1717 Three French vessels arrive with sixty-nine colonists and troops and Bienville's commission as governor of Lou
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Texas, (search)
uilds Fort St. Louis on the Lavaca......July, 1685 La Salle murdered by two followers near the Neches River......March 30, 1687 Captain De Leon, sent from Mexico against French settlers at Fort St. Louis, on the Lavaca River, finds it deserted......April 22, 1689 Spanish mission of San Francisco at Fort St. Louis established......1690 Don Domingo Teran de los Rios appointed governor of Coahuila and Texas......1691 San Antonio founded......1693 H. St. Denis sent out by Lamothe Cadillac, governor of Louisiana, to open commercial relation with Mexico, reaches the mission of St. John the Baptist, on the Rio Grande, where he is arrested by the governor of Coahuila and imprisoned......August, 1714 Spanish mission established near the site of Nacogdoches......1715 Spanish mission established at La Bahia, now Goliad......1721 Bienville, under orders from the company of the Indies, sends a colony by sea to Matagorda Bay......Aug. 10, 1721 Settlement of San Anton
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Walker, Charles L. 1814-1895 (search)
Walker, Charles L. 1814-1895 historian; born in Otsego county, N. Y., in 1814; taught school in 1830; removed to Grand Rapids, Mich., in 1836, when he became secretary of the territorial convention; was elected to the State legislature in 1840; removed to Springfield, Mass., in 1841, where he was admitted to the bar; and settled in Detroit, Mich., in 1851. He became Professor of Law in the University of Michigan in 1857, and a judge of the Wayne circuit court in 1867. He made a special study of history and wrote Life of Cadillac: Michigan from 1796-1805; The Civil administration of General Hull; and The Northwest Territory during the Revolution. He died in Flint, Mich., Feb. 11, 1895.