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French Colonialism | Expanding Slowly Along the River and Bayous

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1747

South America & Caribbean:Events of this year in this region influencing Louisiana.
North America:Britannia rules the Caribbean and European waters, France's sugar shipments to home are imperiled.
Europe: French forces confirm victories in the Netherlands. Pirates and privateers in the Atlantic and Caribbean are driving up marine insurance rates in London. Music by Handel; Poetry by Thomas Gray; painting by Hogarth. Scurvy prevention begins in English navy, sugar in beets discovered by Prussian.
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Sebastian François Ange Le Normant is comissionaire ordonnateur, or judge of Louisiana at Government House at the corner of Toulouse facing the river.
ARRIVALS

DEATHS

Antoine Le Moyne de Chateaugue
BIRTHS

Francisco Luis Carondelet
Jerome Phelypeaux de Pontchartrain
Nicholas Girod
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