Everything about French Mississippi Company totally explained
In the history of
French trade, the
French Mississippi Company was a
chartered company first established in
1684.
It was founded at the request of
René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, who having projected it in 1660, and being appointed Governor of
Fort Frontenac, at the mouth of that river, travelled over the country in 1683, and returned to France to solicit its establishment.
This obtained, he set sail for his new colony, with four vessels loaded with inhabitants, etc; but upon entering the
Gulf of Mexico, it seems he didn't know the river that had cost him so much fatigue, for he settled on another, unknown river, where his colony perished by degrees. By 1685, there were fewer than 100 people left in the colony. Making several expeditions to find the Mississippi, he was killed in one of them by a party who mutinied against him, upon which the colony was dispersed and lost.
Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville afterwards succeeded better; he found the
Mississippi River, built a fort, and settled a colony. In
1718, the company had founded the city of
New Orleans in the territory of
Louisiana.
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