René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, had…
1685 CE
René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, had on July 24, 1684, sailed again from France and returned to America with four ships and three hundred colonists in order to establish a French colony on the Gulf of Mexico, at the mouth of the Mississippi River.
One ship was lost to pirates in the West Indies and a second sank in the inlets of Matagorda Bay, where a third ran aground.
La Salle establishes Fort Saint Louis at the head of Lavaca Bay near present-day Inez, Texas.
The creation of the fort and small settlement in 1685 establishes royal France's claim to possession of the region that is now Texas.
La Salle leads a group eastward on foot on three occasions to try to locate the Mississippi.
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