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Hace 4 días · Samuel de Champlain was the single most important factor in the initial success of French attempts at gaining a foothold in America. He spent the majority of his life in New France and devoted considerable energy to its success. He crossed the Atlantic more than twenty times, going back and forth to encourage and maintain support for the venture.
Much about Samuel de Champlain, including his appearance, remains a mystery. He is believed to have been born in La Rochelle, France, about 1570. His family was probably Protestant, although Champlain later converted to Catholicism. He joined the French military in 1594 and, five years later, crossed the Atlantic Ocean for the first time on a ...
Date of Death: December 25, 1635. Samuel de Champlain was born in La Rochelle, France to a family of mariners. He gained experience as a navigator through voyages with his uncle, notable fur trader François Gravé Du Pont, who traveled and traded in the New World as early as 1599. The knowledge of the New World gained on these journeys proved ...
Canada - Exploration, French Colonization, Champlain: In 1604 the French navigator Samuel de Champlain, under Pierre du Gua, sieur de Monts, who had received a grant of the monopoly, led a group of settlers to Acadia. He chose as a site Dochet Island (Île Sainte-Croix) in the St. Croix River, on the present boundary between the United States and Canada. But the island proved unsuitable, and ...
Samuel de Champlain (sometimes called Samuel Champlain in English documents) was born at Brouage, in the Saintonge province of Western France, about 1570. He wrote in 1613 that he acquired an interest “from a very young age in the art of navigation, along with a love of the high seas.”. He was not yet twenty when he made his first voyage ...
Samuel de Champlain began his journey up the Ottawa River, passing through the Lac des Népissingues (Lake Nipissing), the Rivière des Français (French River) and the great Lac Attigouautau (Lake Huron). He arrived among the Hurons on 1 August.
Samuel [de] Champlain, fue un navegante, cartógrafo, dibujante, soldado, explorador, geógrafo, etnógrafo, diplomático y cronista francés que fundó la Ciudad de Quebec el 3 de julio de 1608 y está considerado el «padre de la Nueva Francia».
