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Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist pwɛ̃ dy sɑbl]; also spelled Point de Sable, Point au Sable, Point Sable, Pointe DuSable, or Pointe du Sable; [n 1] before 1750 [n 2] – August 28, 1818) is regarded as the first permanent non-Native settler of what would later become Chicago, Illinois, and is recognized as the city's founder. [7]
The first fortification to be built was Fort Saint Elmo in 1552, but the fortifications of the city proper began to be built in 1566 when it was founded by Grand Master Jean de Valette. Modifications were made throughout the following centuries, with the last major addition being Fort Lascaris which was completed in 1856. Most of the ...
Jean Parisot was a distant cousin (through their mutual ancestor Almaric, Seigneur de Parisot) of Jean Louis de Nogaret de La Valette, first Duke of Épernon. [ 2 ] Although his birth year is usually given as 1494, both chroniclers of the Great Siege of Malta , Francisco Balbi di Correggio and Hipolito Sans, say he was 67 at the time, thereby ...
The Our Lady of Victory Church, formerly known as the Saint Anthony the Abbot Church, [1] was the first church and building completed in Valletta, Malta.In 1566, following the Great Siege of Malta, Grand Master Jean Parisot de Valette and his Order showed interest to build a church in the name of the Nativity of the Virgin as a form of thanksgiving; the construction was funded by de Valette.
Fort Dearborn depicted as in 1831, sketched 1850s although the accuracy of the sketch was debated soon after it appeared.. The first non-native settler in Chicago was Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, a Frenchman of European and African descent, [11] who built a farm at the mouth of the Chicago River in 1788 to 1790 [a].
The house built by the Point du Sables, close to the mouth of the Chicago River, as it appeared when owned by the Kinzie family in the early 1800s Kitihawa Point Du Sable (also known by her Christian name, Catherine) [ 1 ] was a Potawatomi woman who, with her husband Jean Baptiste Point du Sable , established the first permanent settlement in ...
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Bernard de Nogaret, seigneur de La Valette (1553 – 11 February 1592) was a French governor, military officer, favourite, courtier and statesman during the latter French Wars of Religion. The eldest son of Jean de Nogaret and Jeanne de Saint-Lary , La Valette was born into a provincial noble family on the rise, his father elevating himself to ...