"Dauphin Island is Alabama. I don't understand the 'Louisiana'. "
Alabama is a concept that came into being only 200 years ago. DAUPHIN ISLAND has been inhabited by Europeans for over 300 years. DAUPHIN ISLAND IS THE MOTHER SETTLEMENT FOR EVERY EARLY TOWN IN LOUISIANA, ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI. It may even be considered the mother settlement for NORTHWEST FLORIDA because the only reason the site of Pensacola was occupied by the Spanish in 1698 was to stop the French who declined to fight the Spanish and settled at Dauphin Island in 1699. Later the French from Dauphin Island CONQUERED Pensacola but gave it back to the Spanish in 1722 under the terms of the peace that terminated the war that broke out in 1719. The continuous recorded history of the entire Gulf Coast after 200 years of failed attempts at colonization essentially begins with Iberville's landing here in January of 1699. By 1702, Dauphin Island was the governmental and military center for the entire colony of La Louisiane. By the time Crozat received his contract for a monopoly on trade from King Louis XIV in 1712, Dauphin Island was the ONLY geographic place name mentioned in the entire document which defines the boundaries of Louisiana and how they project from a single place: Dauphin Island. Crozat's Contract was the legal basis for all of America's claims from THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE. As early as 1758, the great Louisiana historian Du Pratz wrote that Mobile was the birthplace of Louisiana and that Dauphin Island was the cradle. Since time immemorial, prehistoric man traveling down the Mississippi River and destined for Dauphin Island would leave the river at the present-day location of New Orleans in order to take advantage of the route through the lakes. On New Year's Eve-2017 , New Orleans kicked off their TRICENTENNIAL commemorating 300 years since Bienville and his men left Dauphin Island in 1718 on their voyage to break ground on Louisiana's newest municipality:La Nouvelle-Orléans . In his first words of his Dauphin Island history, Professor Richebourg McWilliams wrote, "With the exception of Cuba, Dauphin is, historically, the most prominent and interesting island in the Gulf of Mexico."
Dauphin Island's first 100 years make it the STRATEGIC FOCUS of an amazing story of how two Catholic countries, France and Spain, reconciled their differences in order to try to stop the English.
Alabama is a concept that came into being only 200 years ago. DAUPHIN ISLAND has been inhabited by Europeans for over 300 years. DAUPHIN ISLAND IS THE MOTHER SETTLEMENT FOR EVERY EARLY TOWN IN LOUISIANA, ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI. It may even be considered the mother settlement for NORTHWEST FLORIDA because the only reason the site of Pensacola was occupied by the Spanish in 1698 was to stop the French who declined to fight the Spanish and settled at Dauphin Island in 1699. Later the French from Dauphin Island CONQUERED Pensacola but gave it back to the Spanish in 1722 under the terms of the peace that terminated the war that broke out in 1719. The continuous recorded history of the entire Gulf Coast after 200 years of failed attempts at colonization essentially begins with Iberville's landing here in January of 1699. By 1702, Dauphin Island was the governmental and military center for the entire colony of La Louisiane. By the time Crozat received his contract for a monopoly on trade from King Louis XIV in 1712, Dauphin Island was the ONLY geographic place name mentioned in the entire document which defines the boundaries of Louisiana and how they project from a single place: Dauphin Island. Crozat's Contract was the legal basis for all of America's claims from THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE. As early as 1758, the great Louisiana historian Du Pratz wrote that Mobile was the birthplace of Louisiana and that Dauphin Island was the cradle. Since time immemorial, prehistoric man traveling down the Mississippi River and destined for Dauphin Island would leave the river at the present-day location of New Orleans in order to take advantage of the route through the lakes. On New Year's Eve-2017 , New Orleans kicked off their TRICENTENNIAL commemorating 300 years since Bienville and his men left Dauphin Island in 1718 on their voyage to break ground on Louisiana's newest municipality:La Nouvelle-Orléans . In his first words of his Dauphin Island history, Professor Richebourg McWilliams wrote, "With the exception of Cuba, Dauphin is, historically, the most prominent and interesting island in the Gulf of Mexico."
Dauphin Island's first 100 years make it the STRATEGIC FOCUS of an amazing story of how two Catholic countries, France and Spain, reconciled their differences in order to try to stop the English.
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