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The French colonization of Texas started in 1685 when Robert Cavelier de La Salle intended to found the colony at the mouth of the Mississippi River, but inaccurate maps and navigational errors caused his ships to anchor instead 400 miles (640 km) to the west, off the coast of Texas. The colony survived until 1688.
This category is for feminine given names from France and other French-speaking countries. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
The first European to see Texas was Alonso Álvarez de Pineda, who led an expedition for the governor of Jamaica, Francisco de Garay, in 1520.While searching for a passage between the Gulf of Mexico and Asia, [17] Álvarez de Pineda created the first map of the northern Gulf Coast. [18]
Prominent suffragist, executive member of the Local Council of Women of Halifax: 1800–1874: Harriet Hanson Robinson: United States: 1825: 1911 [25] 1800–1874: Pauline Roland: France: 1805: 1852 [35] 1800–1874: Rosalie Roos: Sweden: 1823: 1898: Writer and pioneer of the organized women's rights movement in Sweden: 1800–1874: Ernestine ...
Many originally French place names, possibly hundreds, in the Midwest and Upper West were replaced with directly translated English names once American settlers became locally dominant (e.g. "La Petite Roche" became Little Rock; "Baie Verte" became Green Bay; "Grandes Fourches" became Grand Forks).
Lydia Byam (fl. 1797–1800), naturalist; Madeleine-Françoise Calais (1713 or 1714 - fl. 1740) was a French dentist; María Andrea Casamayor (1700–1780), Spanish mathematician; Émilie du Châtelet (1706–1749), French mathematician and physicist [1]: 52 Maria Medina Coeli (1764–1846), Italian physician; Jane Colden (1724–1766 ...
The French interest in Canada focused first on fishing off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. However, at the beginning of the 17th century, France was more interested in fur from North America. The fur trading post of Tadoussac was founded in 1600. Four years later, Champlain made his first trip to Canada on a trade mission for fur.
The King's Daughters (French: filles du roi [fij dy ʁwa], or filles du roy in the spelling of the era) were the approximately 800 young French women who immigrated to New France between 1663 and 1673 as part of a program sponsored by King Louis XIV. The program was designed to boost New France's population both by encouraging Frenchmen to move ...