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What year did Joliet and Marquette explore the Upper Mississippi?
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In 1672 Father Jaques Marquette and Louis Joillet (Joliet) were named as leaders of an expedition to explore the Northern part of the great Mississippi River. In the following year 1673 they set off. All of their findings were mapped and documented by the two.
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Missionary who explored the upper mississippi river valley with joliet?
Marquette
What exploreres went to the upper Missouri river region?
Marquette explored the upper Mississippi river with Joliet.
Who was the first french colonist to explore the Mississippi river?
The Mississippi River's upper reaches were sighted by French-Canadian explorer Louis Jolliet and French Jesuit missionary Jacques Marquette in 1673. They traveled downriver by canoe to a point near the mouth of the Arkansas River.
Who explored the Mississippi River with Jacouse Marquette?
Marquette and Joliet explored the upper Mississippi River for France. Previously, La Salle claimed the Mississippi River Valley for France.
What two Frenchmen explored the Mississippi River by the canoe in 1673?
The Mississippi River's upper reaches were sighted by French-Canadian explorer Louis Jolliet and French Jesuit missionary Jacques Marquette. They traveled downriver by canoe to a point near the mouth of the Arkansas River.
What missionary explored the upper Mississippi river valley with joilet?
Marquette
Where was the Mississippi river discovered?
The first European to explore the Mississippi was Hernando De Soto who crossed it on his final expedition in 1541. The upper regions were explored by the 1673 travels of Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet, and the entire Mississippi valley was claimed as La Louisiane following the 1682 voyage of La Salle (Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle).
Who mapped much of the upper Mississippi River in 1805?
Zebulon Pike. President Thomas Jefferson send Pike to explore the Upper Mississippi at the same time he sent Lewis and Clark to explore the Missouri.
Who did Jefferson dispatch to explore the upper Mississippi valley and Colorado region?
Zebulon Pike - c
Who explored the upper Mississippi river and the Great Lakes?
The explorer was René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, known as Lasalle, who in 1682 canoed down the Mississsippi from the Ohio to the Gulf of Mexico, and claimed the valley for France as La Louisiane (for Louis XIV).
In total how many voyages Jacques Marquette take?
He explored to Canada to replace a man by the name of Allouez.In 1669 Marquette traveled to Michigan to build the St. Ignace in the upper part of Michigan.Found the direction and mouth of the Mississippi River in 1673.Marquette made a stop to Wisconsin to get food in suppliesJul 17, 1673, went to Mississippi again.In 1674 Jacques traveled to Illinois to build a second mission6 in total from my information
What is the region of Marquette Michigan in the US?
Upper Ponisula
