In the history of French trade, the French Mississippi Company was a chartered company first established in 1684. The arms of the British South Africa Company A chartered company is an association formed by investors or shareholders for the purpose of trade, exploration and colonisation. ... Events France under Louis XIV makes Truce of Ratisbon separately with the Empire and Spain. ...

It was founded at the request of René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, who having projected it in 1660, and being appointed Governor of Fort Frontenac, at the mouth of that river, travelled over the country in 1683, and returned to France to sollicit its establishment. Engraving of La Salle Renée Rober--67. ... Plan of Fort Frontenac, 1685 Fort Frontenac was a French trading post and military fort built in 1673 in what is now Kingston, Ontario, Canada. ...

This obtained, he set sail for his new colony, with four vessels loaded with inhabitants, etc; but upon entering the Gulf of Mexico, it seems he did not know the river that had cost him so much fatigue, for he settled on another, unknown river, where his colony perished by degrees. By 1685, there were less than 100 people left in the colony. Making several expeditions to find the Mississippi, he was killed in one of them by a party who mutinied against him, upon which the colony was dispersed and lost. Gulf of Mexico in 3D perspective. ...

Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville afterwards succeeded better; he found the Mississippi River, built a fort, and settled a colony. In 1718, the company had founded the city of New Orleans in the territory of Louisiana. Pierre Le Moyne dIberville. ... The Mississippi River, derived from the old Ojibwe word misi-ziibi meaning great river (gichi-ziibi big river at its headwaters), is the second-longest river in the United States; the longest is the Missouri River, which flows into the Mississippi. ... // Events The Funj warrior aristocracy deposes the reigning mek and places one of their own ranks on the throne of Sennar. ... New Orleans is the largest city in the state of Louisiana, United States of America. ... Territory of French Louisiane in 1803. ...

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• This article incorporates content from the 1728 Cyclopaedia, a publication in the public domain.
• Johnston, Alexander. The United States, Its History and Constitution. C. Scribner's sons. 1889. p 23.