Sentence examples for french exploration from inspiring English sources

French exploration in Minnesota is known have begun in the 17th century with explorers like Radisson, Groseilliers, and Le Sueur.

Notable French exploration continued with Bruni d'Entrecasteaux in 1792 93 and Nicholas Baudin in 1802.

D. Appleton & Co., Publishers, 1861. 1 sheet of historical notes on French exploration and settlement from 1534, n.d.

This became a base for French exploration of the river and for trade in slaves, gum, gold, skins, ivory, beeswax, and ostrich feathers.

A well-illustrated report of early-19th century French exploration in the New World is the Voyage dans I'Amérique méridionale by Alcide Dessalines d'Orbigny [1802-1857].

Not satisfied with merely understanding the history, which includes extensive Dutch and French exploration along the Australian coast from the early 17th century, Wright took two crucial steps in bringing it back to life.

The book starts with the Viking discovery of North America, dispels a number of myths about Columbus (a much lousier navigator than we were taught) and then traces the various Spanish and French explorations of America before turning to the English settlements at Jamestown and Plymouth.

The French explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet passed by during their exploration of the Mississippi in 1673.

The European NetLander mission will be launched in 2007 with the orbiter developed by CNES in the framework of the French Mars exploration program.

It was the discovery of some American mastodon bones in what is now Ohio, during the early 18th century – an unintended consequence of French colonial exploration – that subsequently inspired Georges Cuvier, an anatomist at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, to ask the essential question: "What was this primitive Earth?

A director of French mining explorations in South America, Boussingault became professor of chemistry at the University of Lyon, Fr., and professor of agricultural chemistry at the Conservatory of Arts and Crafts, Paris (1839 87).