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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.

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