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    also known in French as Fort Maurepas to honor Louis Phélypeaux, comte de Maurepas from the city of Maurepas. It appeared as "Fort Bilocci" on English maps...
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    Louisiana (French: Louisiane) or French Louisiana (Louisiane française) was an administrative district of New France. In 1682 the French explorer René-Robert...
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    Louisiana (redirect from Louisiane)
    Louisiana (French: Louisiane [lwizjan] ; Spanish: Luisiana [lwiˈsjana]; Louisiana Creole: Lwizyàn) is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions...
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  • location of the French settlement La Mobile and the associated Fort Louis de La Louisiane, in the French colony of New France in North America, from 1702...
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    constructed Fort Louis de la Louisiane, at Twenty-seven Mile Bluff on the Mobile River, as the first capital of the French colony of La Louisiane. It was...
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    needed] Lake Maurepas, directly west of Lake Pontchartrain, was named for the son of Louis Phélypeaux, Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, comte de Maurepas, who was...
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  • garrison at Fort de la Boulaye on the lower Mississippi River, built in 1700, and founded Fort St Jean Baptiste de Natchitoches in northern La Louisiane, as they...
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    formed the first permanent, European settlement in French Louisiana, at Fort Maurepas, now in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, and referred to as "Old Biloxi"...
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    of their colonial La Louisiane, including Mobile (1702) and Fort Toulouse (1717) in present-day Alabama: 134  and Fort Maurepas (1699) in present-day...
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    This is a list of forts in New France built by the French government or French chartered companies in what later became Canada, Saint Pierre and Miquelon...
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