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To expand the claim of France on that area.
La Salle
In 1685, the French settled in (what is now considered) Texas near Matagorda Bay, which is on the Gulf Coast, approximately 100 miles southwest of Houston. It was called Fort Saint Louis, and was explored and established by French explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle.
LaSalle had problems with the Karankawa Indians of the gulf coast of Texas.
La Salle was in southeastern Texas, near the Gulf of Mexico, where he attempted to establish a French colony in the late 1600s. His settlement, Fort St. Louis, was located near present-day Victoria, Texas.
King Louis XIV and his administration were generally positive concerning the territory claimed for France in 1682 (areas along the Gulf of Mexico in present-day Louisiana and Texas) by the explorer, Sieur de La Salle, although the French presence there was not supported and soon dissolved. It was not until the explorations of the Sieur d'Iberville some twenty years later that a strongly supported and successful French colony would become established on the Gulf Coast.
he saild the texas coast in 1519.
The South Coast of Texas was created in 1981.
Texas is on the Gulf Coast. It shares its Eastern Border with the Gulf of Mexico.
Houston, Texas is located in the Gulf Coast Region.
Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (aka LaSalle1643-1687) was a French explorer who discovered the Mississippi River Valley, naming it La Louisiane and claiming it for France. He died in a mutiny on the Gulf Coast of Texas after sailing too far west while leading an expedition from France to establish a settlement near the mouth of the Mississippi.
The east coast is on the east side of the U.S. Texas is roughly in the middle of the U.S. Therefore the east coast is east of Texas.