Marquette
Marquette
Marquette and Joliet explored the upper Mississippi River for France. Previously, La Salle claimed the Mississippi River Valley for France.
Louis Joliet
Louis Joliet
La Salle
France
France
Marco polo
la salle
In 1682. the French explorer La Salle (René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle) continued the expeditions of Marquette and Joliet, when he and Henri di Tonti reached the mouth of the Mississippi at the Gulf of Mexico, claiming the Mississippi Valley for France as La Louisiane (Louisiana).He died in 1687 in Texas, where he had established a colony after failing to locate the Mississippi delta in the sprawling Gulf of Mexico.
Robert La Salle, if u want to remember who explored it, you can use this tip: Salle (Robert's last name) sounds like sally (in a way) so u can say, Sally went to the Valley, and you'll remember it :)
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