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Beam. 14 ft 9 in (4.50 m) Draft. 8 ft (2.4 m) La Belle was one of Robert de La Salle's four ships when he explored the Gulf of Mexico with the ill-fated mission of starting a French colony at the mouth of the Mississippi River in 1685. La Belle was wrecked in present-day Matagorda Bay the following year, dooming La Salle's Texas colony to failure.
FIPS code. 48-17216 [3] GNIS feature ID. 2410247 [2] Cotulla Historic District sign downtown (erected 2013) The Nueces River. Cotulla (/ kəˈtjuːlə / kə-TEW-lə[4]) is a city in and the county seat of La Salle County, Texas, United States. [5] Its population was 3,718 as of the 2020 census.
Signature. René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (/ ləˈsæl /; November 22, 1643 – March 19, 1687), was a 17th-century French explorer and fur trader in North America. He explored the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, and the Mississippi River. He is best known for an early 1682 expedition in which he canoed the lower ...
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. La Salle had intended to establish the colony at the mouth of the Mississippi ...
Saint Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, founder of the De La Salle Brothers and Patron Saint of all teachers. Lasallian educational institutions [1] are educational institutions affiliated with the De La Salle Brothers, a Catholic religious teaching order founded by French priest Saint Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, who was canonized in 1900 and proclaimed by Pope Pius XII as patron saint of all teachers ...
Website. lasallecountytx.com. La Salle County is a county in Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 6,664. [2] Its county seat is Cotulla. [3] The county was created in 1858 and later organized in 1880. [4][1] It is named for René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, a 17th-century French explorer.
De La Salle College was an independent Roman Catholic comprehensive single-sex secondary day school for boys, located in Ashfield, an inner-western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Established in 1916 by the De La Salle Brothers and Vincentian Fathers, the college catered to students in Year 7 to Year 12 [ 2 ] from the inner-west ...
The expedition crewmembers giving a history presentation at Sturgeon Bay Junior High, November 8, 1976. Lewis, representing LaSalle, is on the right. La Salle: Expedition II was a 1976 bicentennial reenactment of La Salle's original expedition. French teacher Reid Henri Lewis initiated the project, recruiting sixteen Elgin and Larkin High ...