La Salle claims Louisiana for France
The whole Mississippi basin is claimed for Louis XIV
René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle travelled down the Mississippi to its mouth and on 9 April 1682 claimed the whole river basin for the French king, naming it Louisiana after Louis XIV. New France now stretched from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.
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