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Louisiana was named after Louis XIV, King of France from 1643 to 1715. When René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle claimed the territory drained by the Mississippi River for France, he named it La Louisiane. [28] The suffix –ana (or –ane) is a Latin suffix that can refer to "information relating to a particular individual, subject, or place."
Antebellum Louisiana was a leading slave state, where by 1860, 47% of the population was enslaved. Louisiana seceded from the Union on January 26, 1861, joining the Confederate States of America. New Orleans, the largest city in the entire South at the time, and strategically important port city, was taken by Union troops on April 25
Los Angeles Mounted Rifles: Commands: Louisiana Cavalry Brigade (1864–1865) Member of the California State Assembly for the 1st district; In office January 7, 1856 – January 5, 1857: Preceded by: Wilson W. Jones: Succeeded by: Henry Hancock: 3rd and 5th Los Angeles City Attorney; In office May 4, 1852 – May 4, 1853: Preceded by: William G ...
Almeria, Nebraska, an unincorporated community in Loup County, Nebraska (named after a city in Spain which was named an Arabic word meaning "the Watchtower") Algodones, New Mexico, a census-designated place in Sandoval County, New Mexico (cottons) Alta, California, a census-designated place in Placer County, California (tall [feminine])
Lafayette (/ ˌ l æ f i ˈ ɛ t, ˌ l ɑː f-/ LA(H)-F-ee-ET, French:) is the most populous city in and parish seat of Lafayette Parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana, [3] located along the Vermilion River. It is Louisiana's fourth-most populous city with a 2020 census population of 121,374; [4] the consolidated city-parish's population was ...
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In 1804, all of the Louisiana Purchase south of the 33rd parallel became the Orleans Territory, and the remainder became the District of Louisiana. (The District of Louisiana was later renamed the Louisiana Territory; and still later, when the Orleans Territory became the State of Louisiana, the Louisiana Territory was renamed the Missouri Territory.)
This is a list of the colonial governors of Louisiana, from the founding of the first settlement by the French in 1699 to the territory's acquisition by the United States in 1803. The French and Spanish governors administered a territory which was much larger than the modern U.S. state of Louisiana , comprising Louisiana (New France) and ...