USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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-3: -La Salle secured a contract for the colonization of lower Louisiana from Louis XIV in 1683. The plan was to reach the Mississippi by sea and secure a permanent settlement upriver that would provide the French with a strategic advantage over Spanish interests throughout the Gulf of Mexico.

Detailed explanation-4: -Fort Prudhomme was the first structure built by the French in Tennessee. In April 1682, the expedition reached the Gulf of Mexico. There, La Salle named the Mississippi basin La Louisiane in honor of Louis XIV and claimed it for France.