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Niagara County (New York, United States) (search for this): entry celoron-de-bienville
Lake Erie (United States) (search for this): entry celoron-de-bienville
United States (United States) (search for this): entry celoron-de-bienville
Celoron de Bienville
French explorer; born about 1715.
The treaty of peace at Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748 did not touch the subject of boundaries between the French and English colonies in America.
The Ohio Company was formed partly for the purpose of planting English settlements in the disputed territory.
The French determined to counteract the movement by pre-occupation; and in 1749 the governor of Canada, the Marquis de la Galissoniere, sent Celeron with subordinate officers, cadets, twenty soldiers, 180 Canadians, thirty Iroquois, and twenty-five Abenakes, with instructions to go down the Ohio River and take formal possession of the surrounding country in the name of the King of France.
Contrecoeur, afterwards in command at Fort Duquesne, and Coulon de Villiers accompanied him as chief lieutenants.
Celoron was provided with a number of leaden tablets, properly inscribed, to bury at different places as a record of pre-occupation by the French.
The expedition left Lachine o
France (France) (search for this): entry celoron-de-bienville
Canada (Canada) (search for this): entry celoron-de-bienville
Celoron de Bienville
French explorer; born about 1715.
The treaty of peace at Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748 did not touch the subject of boundaries between the French and English colonies in America.
The Ohio Company was formed partly for the purpose of planting English settlements in the disputed territory.
The French determined to counteract the movement by pre-occupation; and in 1749 the governor of Canada, the Marquis de la Galissoniere, sent Celeron with subordinate officers, cadets, twenty soldiers, 180 Canadians, thirty Iroquois, and twenty-five Abenakes, with instructions to go down the Ohio River and take formal possession of the surrounding country in the name of the King of France.
Contrecoeur, afterwards in command at Fort Duquesne, and Coulon de Villiers accompanied him as chief lieutenants.
Celoron was provided with a number of leaden tablets, properly inscribed, to bury at different places as a record of pre-occupation by the French.
The expedition left Lachine on
Cincinnati (Ohio, United States) (search for this): entry celoron-de-bienville
Ohio (United States) (search for this): entry celoron-de-bienville
Fort Niagara (New York, United States) (search for this): entry celoron-de-bienville
Riviere Blanche (Ohio, United States) (search for this): entry celoron-de-bienville
Iroquois, Wyoming (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): entry celoron-de-bienville