"Etienne Veniard de Bourgmont" "Dauphin Island"
I discovered French explorer Etienne Veniard de Bourgmont this morning. He began writing his "Exact Description of Louisiana" in 1713 before the 1717 hurricane closed Pelican Pass and Pelican Island formed the peninsula. Ain't gonna have a chance go to the library to look this thing up(no e-book available) but it shore is interesting. Bourgmont was hated by the French priests because he had a bunch of different French and Indian wives. They had warrants made out against him in France but both Cadillac and Bienville refused to serve them. He was too good of a gun runner, fur supplier and explorer.
From the Wikipedia article about Bourgmont: "Officials sent Bourgmont to bring the chiefs of several tribes to Dauphin Island, a French base in present-day Alabama, for a meeting. All of the chiefs except one died en route. Bourgmont escorted the surviving chief back to his homeland and then returned to the (new) settlement of New Orleans. He was paid 4,279 livres for his work."
From Marcel Giraud's article about Bourgmont: "The importance Bourgmont still attaches to the off-shore anchorage of Dauphin Island and to its entrance channel, passable in spite of its narrowness, the fact that he represents the small settlement of Port Dauphin as completely devoid of defense works, sets forth a state of affairs that goes back to at least 1715.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tienne_de_Veniard,_Sieur_de_Bourgmont
I discovered French explorer Etienne Veniard de Bourgmont this morning. He began writing his "Exact Description of Louisiana" in 1713 before the 1717 hurricane closed Pelican Pass and Pelican Island formed the peninsula. Ain't gonna have a chance go to the library to look this thing up(no e-book available) but it shore is interesting. Bourgmont was hated by the French priests because he had a bunch of different French and Indian wives. They had warrants made out against him in France but both Cadillac and Bienville refused to serve them. He was too good of a gun runner, fur supplier and explorer.
From the Wikipedia article about Bourgmont: "Officials sent Bourgmont to bring the chiefs of several tribes to Dauphin Island, a French base in present-day Alabama, for a meeting. All of the chiefs except one died en route. Bourgmont escorted the surviving chief back to his homeland and then returned to the (new) settlement of New Orleans. He was paid 4,279 livres for his work."
From Marcel Giraud's article about Bourgmont: "The importance Bourgmont still attaches to the off-shore anchorage of Dauphin Island and to its entrance channel, passable in spite of its narrowness, the fact that he represents the small settlement of Port Dauphin as completely devoid of defense works, sets forth a state of affairs that goes back to at least 1715.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tienne_de_Veniard,_Sieur_de_Bourgmont
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