Louisiana

Colonial French LA

French Colonization of Louisiana and Louisiana Purchase Map Collection - part of the Louisiana Digital Library

El Camino Real de los Tejas - Louisiana: The old highway ran from over 1600 miles Los Adaes [present-day Robeline, LA] to Mexico City

The Louisiana Acadian Coast

Divisions of the original Attakapas District

Division of Territory of Orleans into Counties in 1805 & Map of Attakapas County

Iberia Parish

Iberia Parish - Color

Map of SE Louisiana and Mississippi Gulf Coast showing: New Orleans, Mississippi River, Lake Maurepas, Lake Pontchartrain, Lake Borgne, Gulf of Mexico, Gulfport and Biloxi

Map of 10 parishes in the Greater New Orleans area:

Greater New Orleans area showing English Turn

English Turn

From The Second Voyage to the Mississippi, The Journal of the Renommee by Iberville

 "...From Cape San Antonio I steered for the Biloxy Bay anchorage, at which I arrived on January 8, 1700, on moored ith two anchors in 21 feet of water.

The 9th. In the morning M. De Sauvolle came aboard. I learned from him that the garrison was in good health, although four men had died, among them two Canadians, one buccaneer, and one enlisted man for La Rochelle.

He told me that an English corvette of ten guns, commanded by Captain Louis Bance, had entered the Mississippi and gone 25 leagues upstream, where my brother, De Bienville, with five men in two bark canoes, had come across the corvette at anchor, awaiting favorable winds to go higher upstream. My brother sent two men to tell him to immediately leave the country, which was in the possession of the king, and that, if he did not leave, he would force him to. With this he complied after talking with my brother, whom he knew from having seen him with me at Hudson Bay, where I captured this captain."

Belgium

Hainaut (Origin of the passengers on La Loire, the Louisiana Mayflower) The following site has info on the passengers on La Loire: http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/8230/