Just thinking of does thinking of la belle doom the french effort to colonize texas . La salle discovered the mouth of the Mississippi River. Claim to the lands for france. Got a commission from louis the 14th two, back and build a colony at the Mississippi River mouth. He got the slides together and came back in 1684, and landed at the texas coast thinking he was at the mouth of Mississippi River. He thought texas was part of the Mississippi River. And was insistent somewhere in that area he would find his river to build his colony. His problem was was that he had a map that he used at the time that he and his mapmaker put together that was dramatically wrong. It showed the Mississippi River floating flowing through north america coming down to the content and veering to the west and linking up the Rio Grande River and flooring into texas at the western end of the gulf of mexico. That map is what really got la salle off course. He offloaded the ships. Lost a big supply ship. He was do
Youre watching American History tv, all weekend, every weekend on cspan 3. In the winter of 1863 a South Carolina grade of the Confederate Army camped near montpelier. James madisons homes. Matthew reeves takes us on archaeology project striving to learn more how civil war soldiers lived in Winter Quarters. We are located on the north side of the property across route 20 just behind where the gilmore cabin stands. Where were at is at the site of a set of confederate winter encampments from the winter of 1863 and 1864. This is the area we found through archeological surveys the general Samuel Mcgowan his South Carolina trips were located through 1864. The significance of this time period is that following gettysburg, lee brought his army from Northern Virginia retreated to the south, came into Orange County and eventually went into Winter Quarters here in Orange County with montpelier being the western most extent for the entire army. From montpelier from the archeological data we found