|
 |
|
Jolliet, Louis
1645–1700, French explorer, joint discoverer with Jacques Marquette of the upper Mississippi River, b. Quebec prov., Canada. After a year's study of hydrography in France and some years as a trader and trapper on the Great Lakes, Jolliet was appointed (1672) as leader of an expedition in search of the Mississippi. [eng]
|
 |
|
Jolliet
He was the first European to travel down the Mississippi River from the Great Lakes.
[eng]
|
 |
|
Jolliet, Louis
French explorer, joint discoverer with Jacques Marquette of the upper Mississippi River, b. Quebec prov., Canada. After a year's study of hydrography in France and some years as a trader and trapper on the Great Lakes, Jolliet was appointed (1672) as leader of an expedition in search of the Mississippi. He and Father Marquette, with five voyageurs, set out from St. Ignace in May, 1673, went to Green Bay, ascended the Fox River, portaged (at the site of Portage, Wis.) to the Wisconsin River, and descended to the Mississippi. [eng]
|
 |
|
Jolliet, Louis. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
French explorer, joint discoverer with Jacques Marquette of the upper Mississippi River, b. Quebec prov., Canada. After a year’s study of hydrography in France and some years as a trader and trapper on the Great Lakes, Jolliet was appointed (1672) as leader of an expedition in search of the Mississippi. [eng]
|
 |
|
Discoverers Web: Jolliet and Marquette
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.
[eng]
|
 |
|
1Up Info - Jolliet, Louis (Explorers, Travelers, And Conquerors) - Encyclopedia
1645–1700, French explorer, joint discoverer with Jacques Marquette of the upper Mississippi River, b. Quebec prov., Canada. After a year's study of hydrography in France and some years as a trader and trapper on the Great Lakes, Jolliet was appointed (1672) as leader of an expedition in search of the Mississippi. He and Father Marquette, with five voyageurs, set out from St. Ignace in May, 1673, went to Green Bay, ascended the Fox River, portaged (at the site of Portage, Wis.) to the Wisconsin River, and descended to the Mississippi. [eng]
|
 |
|
Jolliet, Louis
French explorer, joint discoverer with Jacques Marquette of the upper Mississippi River, b. Quebec prov., Canada. After a year's study of hydrography in France and some years as a trader and trapper on the Great Lakes, Jolliet was appointed (1672) as leader of an expedition in search of the Mississippi. [eng]
|
 |
|
Louis jolliet-page principale
C'est à Louis Jolliet et à son compagnon, le père Marquette, que revient tout le mérite de la découverte du Mississippi, dont le nom signifie grande rivière. Cette réalisation valut à Jolliet une place dans l'histoire et un monument pour la postérité sur la façade du parlement de Québec, oeuvre de Suzor Côté. [fra]
|
 |
|
|