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- Expedition of Marquette and Joliet, 1673 - Wisconsin Historical Society
On May 17, 1673, Father Jacques Marquette and fur trader Louis Joliet set out on a four-month voyage that carried them thousands of miles through the heart of North America to explore the path of the Mississippi River
- Jacques Marquette - Wikipedia
In 1673, Marquette, with Louis Jolliet, an explorer born near Quebec City, was the first European to explore and map the northern portion of the Mississippi River Valley
- Jacques Marquette: Biography, French Missionary, Explorer
On May 17, 1673, Marquette and his friend Louis Joliet (also spelled "Jolliet"), a French-Canadian fur trader and explorer, were chosen to lead an expedition that included five men and two
- Jacques Marquette | Mississippi River, Native Americans, French . . .
Jacques Marquette (born June 1, 1637, Laon, Fr —died May 18, 1675, Ludington, Mich ) was a French Jesuit missionary explorer who, with Louis Jolliet, travelled down the Mississippi River and reported the first accurate data on its course
- Marquette and Jolliet 1673 Expedition - Native Heritage Project
On May 18, 1673, Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette departed from St Ignace, now a part of Michigan, with two canoes and five other voyageurs of French-Indian ancestry (today’s Métis) They followed Lake Michigan to Green Bay, now in Wisconsin
- Louis Jolliet Jacques Marquette | National Mississippi River Museum . . .
Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette discovered and explored the Mississippi River, opening up a century and a half of French exploration and commerce and another century and a half of American settlement and growth
- Marquette and Jolliets Excellent Adventure - American Heritage
In 1673, a Jesuit missionary, a fur trader, and a small group of canoe men traveled 2000 miles from what is now upper Michigan down to Arkansas and back Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet were the first people of European descent to explore the centrals parts the Mississippi in 1673
- Marquette-Joliet Expedition - Encyclopedia of Arkansas
In 1673, Father Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit missionary, and Louis Joliet (or Jolliet), a fur trader, undertook an expedition to explore the unsettled territory in North America from the Great Lakes region to the Gulf of Mexico for the colonial power of France
- Marquette Joliet’s Great River Journey | Northern Michigan History
On May 17, 1673, two unlikely adventurers—Jesuit missionary Father Jacques Marquette and French-Canadian fur trader Louis Joliet—pushed off from St Ignace in canoes, beginning one of the most significant exploration journeys in North American history
- Remembering The Mississippi Voyage Of Marquette And Joliet
On May 17, 1673, the Rev Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet set out on a voyage that would take them thousands of miles into the North American interior, confirming that it was possible to travel by water from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico and initiating some of the first white settlements in the region
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