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Robert De la Salle

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Personal details and public facts.

Profession
Explorer
Died
Mar 19, 1687
Zodiac
Scorpio
Born in
France
About
French seventeenth-century explorer who traveled to the Mississippi River, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Great Lakes regions. He set up forts in many of the major waterways of the Americas. At one point his crew, on a voyage to Mexico, rose up in a mutiny against him.
Family
He was born in Rouen, France to an upper-class family. His brother, Jean, became a priest in the Sulpician tradition.

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