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Feb 20, 2020
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February 1685
FRANCE TRIES TO COLONISE TEXAS
n February 1685, near the present-day town of Inez, French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, establishes Fort St Louis as part of French attempts to maintain a colony in Texas. The colonists suffered disease, harsh conditions and raids by Native Americans – most
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