USA HISTORY

FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE

SPANISH COLONIES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Spanish commander who was sent to destroy Fort St. Louis?
A
Hernan Cortes
B
Alonso de Leon
C
Jose de Escandon
D
San Juan Bautista
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -La Salle took seventeen men on an eastward march, hoping to find the Mississippi and follow it to his Illinois post-the real Fort Saint Louis-and to travel onward to Canada to seek relief for his meager colony.

Detailed explanation-2: -In just a few years their settlement would be lost to memory, except for the Spaniards who burned the buildings and buried the eight cannons that had been so devoid of usefulness for the colonists.

Detailed explanation-3: -Beginning in the 1680s, the Spanish initiated a series of expeditions, or entradas, into Texas to combat French intrusions into the region (West 1905: 200). In 1686, Alonzo de León led the first land expedition seeking to expel the French from their colony at Fort St.

Detailed explanation-4: -HISTORICAL AND REFERENCE DATA ON THE OLD FORT ST LOUIS Robert Cavelier Sieur de La Salle was born in November of 1643 at Rouen France and was murdered by his own companions on 19th of March 1687 in Texas.

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