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Exploration

French Wisconsin at Fort la Baye

Posted on May 24, 2018

French explorers, voyageurs (fur traders), Jesuit priests, and other settlers began arriving in the Upper Great Lakes region of North America in the mid-1600s. Jean Nicolet supposedly landed near present-day Green Bay, Wisconsin in 1634, naming the …

Posted in Military, Science & TechnologyTagged Cartography, Colonial, Exploration, Fur Trade

French Cartography in the Great Lakes

Posted on May 21, 2018

French mariners and explorers using the Le Maire Sundial Compass depended on both their own specialized navigational expertise and maps produced by French cartographers. Many such maps were created based on explorer accounts of the navigable waterways …

Posted in Military, Science & TechnologyTagged Cartography, Colonial, Exploration, Fur Trade

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