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Discoverers Web: Jolliet and Marquette - English
URL: http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/jolmar.html

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Jolliet and Marquette led the first French expedition down the Mississippi, in 1673. They reached the mouth of the Arkansas. Their expedition was was one of the first in the chain of events that would finally lead to French possession of Louisiana.

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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Jacques Marquette, S.J. - English
URL: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09690a.htm

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Jesuit missionary and discoverer of the Mississippi River, b. in 1636, at Laon, a town in north central France; d. near Ludington, Michigan, 19 May, 1675. He came of an ancient family distinguished for its civic and military services.

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1Up Info - Marquette, Jacques (Explorers, Travelers, And Conquerors) - Encyclopedia - English
URL: http://www.1upinfo.com/encyclopedia/M/MarquettJ.html

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1637–75, French missionary and explorer in North America, a Jesuit priest. He was sent to New France in 1666 and studied Native American languages under a missionary at Trois Rivières. In 1668 he was sent as a missionary to the Ottawa, spent a winter at Sault Ste Marie, and in 1669 reached La Pointe mission on Chequamegon Bay.

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