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Fort Saint-Louis, Texas, was founded in 1685 by French explorer René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle and members of his expedition, including Jesuit missionary Zenobius Membre, on the banks of Garcitas Creek, a few kilometers inland from the mouth of the Lavaca River.
Fort Louis (or Fort St. Louis) [1] [2] is a historic French military fort on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin. It is located in Marigot, the capital of the French side of the island, overlooking Marigot Bay. [3] The fort was built in the 18th century to defend Marigot's harbor and its warehouses. [4] It was built during the reign of King ...
The map was included in Relacion y Discursos de Descubrimiento, written by Alonso De Leon in the 1690s. Čeština: Mapa Fort Saint Louis, jak vypadala v roce 1689. Mapa byla zahrnuta do „Relacion y Discursos de Descubrimiento“, kterou napsal Alonso De Leon v 90. letech 16. století.
The fort has sometimes been referred to as "Fort St. Louis" but that name was not used during the life of the settlement and appears to be a later invention. [27] Map of the French fort drawn by a member of the Spanish expedition that discovered the French colony in 1689. It marks the river, the colony's structures, and location of cannons.
Fort St. Louis, 2010. Marigot is located on the west coast of the island of St. Martin. It extends from the coast to the west, along the Bay of Marigot and the hills of the interior of the island to the east. On the south-west it is bounded by the Simpson Bay.
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Fort Saint Louis (Martinique), a 17th-century French fortress in Fort-de-France, Martinique; Saint-Louis, Senegal, the French colonial capital in Senegal; Castle of San Luis de Bocachica, a 17th century Spanish fortress that defended Cartagena, Colombia
In 1722 Spanish built a fort, Presidio La Bahia, and Mission Nuestra Señora del Espíritu Santo de Zúñiga on the site of Fort Saint Louis. [5] Theodore Gudin's painting of La Salle's entrance into Matagorda Bay, 1684. The port of Linnville was established on Matagorda Bay in 1831, and served as a main port for the Republic of Texas.