robert de laSelle
In 1682, the French explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle named the region Louisiana to honor France's King Louis XIV.
Robert cavalier de lasalle
After they claimed the same land as the British there was a long fight called the French and Indian war. The British won so the French lost that land but in the end the French claimed Louisiana to Ohio.
You have a misunderstanding here. Louisiana purchased nothing, the US purchased the territory that France identified as Louisiana which was much larger than the modern state of Louisiana. French Louisiana included all lands west of the Mississippi river except the southwest (claimed by Spain) and the Pacific northwest (claimed by England and Russia). However the precise boundaries of the Louisiana Purchase were (and still are) uncertain.
the french possession was the land owned north of the Louisiana purchase .
Rene-Robert Cavelier de La Salle.
France claimed the territory of Louisiana as a colony, but that territory was far larger than the present-day state of Louisiana. Arkansas, Missouri, and Iowa at least were all wholly in French Louisiana.
Hernando de Soto claimed Louisiana in 1541
Louisiana was originally claimed by the Spanish but was first settled by the French.
France claimed ownership of Louisiana until it sold it to the United States in 1803 as part of the Louisiana Purchase. Spain also claimed Louisiana for a while.
La Salle claims Louisiana for France.
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La Salle claimed the mississippi river valley for france
At one point, the Louisiana Territory
he claimed a place of which is now Louisiana and found India so......... he found Louisiana and India.