USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -French explorer, Rene-Robert Cavelier de La Salle, sailed from the Great Lakes up the St. Lawrence River, through the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico, to the mouth of the Mississippi River in 1682. There he raised a French flag and claimed all the lands drained by the Mississippi for France.

Detailed explanation-2: -Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle He reached the Gulf of Mexico on April 17, 1682, claiming the entire Mississippi River basin for the King of France.

Detailed explanation-3: -Beyond the Mississippi, the land-the vast deserts, thick forests, and towering mountains-was claimed by Spain, France, and Great Britain. And it was occupied largely by various Indian tribes. President Thomas Jefferson had always wanted to know what was out there, what lay between the Mississippi and the great ocean.

Detailed explanation-4: -La Salle was the first European to travel the Mississippi from the Illinois River to the Gulf of Mexico, and he claimed the Mississippi River drainage area for France, naming it “Louisiana” after King Louis XIV.

Detailed explanation-5: -Nearly a century and a half later, in 1682, the famous French explorer René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, descended the Mississippi to its mouth and by right of discovery promptly claimed the entire region for Louis XIV of France (reigned 1643-1715).