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The first European to visit what is now Tennessee was probably Hernando de Soto. In his journey westward from Florida, the Spanish explorer is believed to have camped near the site of Memphis in 1541. More than 100 years later the French explorer La Salle claimed the Mississippi Valley for France and named the region Louisiana for King Louis XIV. In 1682 he built Fort Prud'homme…

and he had more journeys but i forgot what it was later he died and now we remember him

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