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Showing posts with label French Illinois. Show all posts
Showing posts with label French Illinois. Show all posts
Sunday, March 24, 2024

Marquette and Jolliet French Exploration of the North American Interior, 1673.

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On May 17, 1673, Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet, a skilled cartographer and fur trader, set out on a four-month voyage that carr...
Saturday, December 16, 2023

A Summary of French Influence in Illinois.

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While Cahokia was undoubtedly a significant center of French colonial life in early Illinois, several other villages and settlements thrived...
Thursday, April 20, 2023

The Winning of the Illinois County of Virginia (1778) from the British in the American Revolution (1775-1783).

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The Illinois County was already occupied by settlers, most of whom spoke Algonquian and Siouan languages before the French and English arriv...
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Sunday, April 16, 2023

The 1730 Arrowsmith Battlefield of the Meskwaki (Fox) and the French in McLean County, Illinois.

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Soon after their first contact with the French in Wisconsin, the Meskwaki ( Fox Indians ) began to develop a feeling of distrust and suspic...
Friday, April 14, 2023

Lost Towns of Illinois - Sag Bridge, Illinois.

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Sag Bridge was a village that is now part of the Village of Lemont. It had a hotel and its own post office, a number of businesses, a railro...
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Saturday, June 15, 2019

René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle's ship, the 'Le Griffon' reportedly found in Lake Michigan."

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In the 17th century, Europeans came to what they called the 'New World' and started divvying it up and parceling it out under the ru...
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