USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Location of La Salle’s settlement now known as Fort St. Louis. Established roughly 40 miles inland from where the French expedition landed on the Texas coast, the site was intended only as a temporary outpost for the colonists while La Salle continued searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River.

Detailed explanation-2: -Thinking he might have been captured by the Chickasaws, La Salle had a stockade built on the second Chickasaw Bluff south of the Hatchie River. He called it Fort Prudhomme.

Detailed explanation-3: -This new colony, moreover, would prevent the English from expanding westward. Fort Saint Louis, built in the winter of 1682 would become the bulwark of this new empire. The Iroquois Indian Confederacy of upper New York State understood La Salle’s plan clearly.

Detailed explanation-4: -Old Fort St Louis Victoria County Texas. Approximately 28 miles southeast of Victoria Texas and 13 miles south of Inez Texas in Victoria county is the location of the first European settlement made on what is now Texas soil.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Fort Saint-Louis: what a history! It took its final shape in 1680 and adopted the name of Fort Louis in honor of Louis XIV, king at the time.