 | Jesse W. Lee - Associations, institutions, etc - 1912 - 570 pages
...having descended the Mississippi and explored the shore of the Gulf of Mexico to the westward, took formal possession of the country in the name of the King of France, "from the mouth of the Ohio ; also along the Mississippi and the rivers discharging themselves... | |
 | Sylvanus Griswold Morley - 1915 - 382 pages
...landed on the island of Cozumel, off the northeast coast, but soon proceeded to the mainland and took formal possession of the country in the name of the King of Spain. This empty ceremony soon proved to be 1 One authority (Landa, 1864: p. 48) says in this connection:... | |
 | Charles Henry Carey - Local author - 1922 - 1032 pages
...coast when Heceta and some of his officers went ashore. They erected a cross and with due ceremony took formal possession of the country in the name of the king of Spain. It was while the officers of the Santiago were thus engaged that Bodega y Quadra in the Sonora... | |
 | Missouri. Division of Geological Survey and Water Resources - 1926 - 188 pages
...flag. In 1682, on April 9th, near the mouth of the Mississippi River. Robert Cavalier La Salle took formal possession of the country in the name of the King of France and called it Louisiana, thus bringing what is now Vernon County under the French flag. In 1762,... | |
 | State Historical Society of Wisconsin - Wisconsin - 1907 - 464 pages
...Sieur De St. Lusson, as his interpreter, to a grand council at Sault St. Mary, when De St Lusson took formal possession of the country in the name of the King of France. In the spring of 1683 he was sent by Gov. De La Barre, with a band of twenty men, to establish... | |
 | Henry Putney Beers - History - 2002 - 388 pages
...and Henri de Tonti with a small party of Frenchmen reached the mouth of the Arkansas River and took formal possession of the country in the name of the king of France. Four years later, Tonti established at the mouth of the river a post that became a way station... | |
 | Missouri. Division of Geological Survey and Water Resources - Geology - 1926 - 186 pages
...flag. In 1682, on April 9th, near the mouth of the Mississippi River. Robert Cavalier La Salle took formal possession of the country in the name of the King of France and called it Louisiana, thus bringing what is now Vernon County under the French flag. In 1762,... | |
 | Agriculture - 1895 - 416 pages
...explorations until he reached the mouth of the Mississippi, in 1682, where, with great ceremony, he took formal possession of the country in the name of the king of France, and thus established a foundation for the claim of France to the whole Mississippi valley.... | |
 | John C. Van Tramp - Mississippi River Valley - 1870 - 794 pages
...been several years engaged in the preparation, in 1682 explored the Mississippi to the sea, and took formal possession of the country in the name of the King of France, in honor of whom he called it Louisiana. In 1685 he also took formal possession of Texas, and... | |
 | James D. McCabe - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1874 - 970 pages
...there. He proceeded along the coast as far as the small inlet called Gaspe', where he landed and took formal possession of the country in the name of the king of France. Leaving Gaspe" bay, Cartier discovered the great river of Canada, and sailed up the stream... | |
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Mississippi to the sea, and took formal possession of the country in the name of the King of France, in honor of whom he called it Louisiana. 
