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Bienville entered the enemy's country without any means of siege, made one attack on a fort, and then, without attempting by scouts to open a communication with D ' Artaguette, whom he had ordered to meet him in the Chickasaw country on the 10th of May, or making any attempt to give him proper orders, without even taking one Chickasaw prisoner to get any information of D ' Artaguette's proceedings, he retreated, and ended the campaign disastrously.
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Bienville and country
During his first administration, Bienville succeeded in keeping Carolina traders out of the Alabama country and the Choctaw country.
Bienville and without
Surviving remnants scattered back to meet the belated de Monchervaux on the return trail ; Bienville wrote that, without the firm resistance given by the Iroquois and Arkansas, not a single Frenchman would have survived.
Bienville and made
Regulations for the Indian trade were made by the Conseil superieure de la Louisiane, and Bienville apparently did not have control of that body.
They added to the mounds, including a residence for their chief, the " Great Sun ", on Mound B, and a combined temple and charnel house for the elite on Mound C. Many early European explorers, including Hernando De Soto, La Salle and Bienville, made contact with the Natchez at this site, called the Grand Village of the Natchez.
The Chickasaws sued for peace and Bienville made them a peace treaty in April 1740.
" Account made by Bienville of his Expedition against the Chickasaws.
Bienville and one
The parish was one of several new ones established by the state legislature during Reconstruction ; in 1873 it was formed from land that had belonged to Bienville, Claiborne, Jackson and Union parishes to create one in which newly elected representatives might have more ties to the Republican Party.
Established in 1956, the College of Pharmacy is accredited by the American Council on Pharmacy Education, including one of seven Toxicology programs in the U. S. In 2007, the College of Pharmacy moved from the main campus to the off-campus ( Bienville ) building.
Except for one son and daughter, Driskill's family remained in Bienville Parish, and his descendents still live in the area.
Bienville and on
Mardi Gras arrived in North America as a French Catholic tradition with the Le Moyne brothers, Pierre Le Moyne d ' Iberville and Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, in the late 17th century, when King Louis XIV sent the pair to defend France's claim on the territory of Louisiane, which included what are now the U. S. states of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
Bienville went on to found the settlement of Mobile, Alabama in 1702 as the first capital of French Louisiana.
It was created on February 27, 1871 from lands formerly belonging to Bienville, Bossier, and Claiborne parishes.
Instead Bienville Parish participated in the building of fortifications on the nearby Red River.
The notorious bandits Bonnie and Clyde were shot dead in Bienville Parish on May 23, 1934.
After tracking the Barrow gang across nine states, Hamer, in conjunction with officials in Louisiana, learned Bonnie and Clyde had visited a home in Bienville Parish on May 21, 1934, and that Clyde had designated a rendezvous point in the vicinity with gang member Henry Methvin, in case they were later separated.
Under the overall direction of the governor of Louisiana, Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, a force from Upper Louisiana attacked Ogoula Tchetoka on March 25, 1736.
Jean Baptiste le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, was granted a large tract of land on the West Bank of the river opposite New Orleans in 1719.
It is also the site near the area where Sieur d ' Bienville and Sieur D ' Iberville staked the claim for France at Mardi Gras Bayou on Mardi Gras Day.
At the age of seventeen, Bienville joined his brother Iberville on an expedition to establish the colony of Louisiana.
Upon hearing of this encounter on his return, Iberville ordered Bienville to establish a settlement along the Mississippi River at the first solid ground he could find.
On the recommendations of his brother, Bienville moved the majority of the settlers to a new settlement in what is now Alabama on the west side of the Mobile River, called Fort Louis de la Mobile ( or " Mobille ").
In 1713, a new governor arrived from France, and Bienville moved west where, in 1716, he established Fort Rosalie on the present site of Natchez, Mississippi.
After moving into his new home on the site of what is now the Custom House, Bienville named the new city " La Nouvelle-Orléans " in honor of Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, the Prince Regent of France.
At the event, Bienville arrived late, so d ' Artaguette attacked independently on March 25, 1736, and was crushed.
After weeks of preparation, Bienville attacked from the south on May 26, and himself was bloodily repulsed.
But within a year, Bienville led a French army into Natchez territory, intent on punishing the warriors of White Apple.
Dugué was a cousin and fellow officer of brothers ( Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville and Pierre Le Moyne d ' Iberville ), with whom he served on expeditions during French colonization in North America.
Bienville and fort
After moving the 1702 settlement of Mobile to Mobile Bay in 1711, Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville sent an expedition up the Alabama River to establish a fort in the interior of New France, both to stop the encroachment of the British and to foster trade and goodwill with the Creek.
Bienville and by
* 1718 – The city of New Orleans is founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville.
* May 10 – In New France, Governor Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville ends his final term ( multiple times over 43 years ) as Governor of colonial French Louisiana, which he helped colonize ; he is succeeded by the Marquis de Vaudreuil ( for the next 10 years ) and returns to France.
* May 14 – In Louisiana ( New France ), at war with Spain, Bienville, from Mobile, captures Pensacola, but Pensacola is later recaptured by the Spanish, and again re-taken by Bienville.
In 2008, John McCain won in Bienville Parish by a 187-vote margin over the Democrat Barack Obama, 3, 776 – 3, 589.
Pleasant Grove Baptist Church and Cemetery in Bienville Parish ; land for the church and cemetery was donated in the 19th century by William Thomas Corley.
Bienville Parish was represented in the Louisiana State Senate from 1948 – 1960 by a fiery segregationist and unsuccessful 1959 Democratic gubernatorial candidate William M. Rainach of neighboring Claiborne Parish.
The city of Spanish Fort is rich in history dating as far back as 1712 with the founding of Mobile by Jean-Baptist Bienville of France.
It is surrounded by many lakes within a 30 to 40-minute drive and some of Louisiana's best fishing, deer, and turkey hunting makes Gibsland and Bienville Parish a true sportsman's paradise.
Due to fears of tides and hurricanes in the 18th century, the capital of French Louisiana was later moved by colonial governor Bienville, in 1723, from Biloxi to a new inland harbor town named La Nouvelle-Orléans ( New Orleans ), built for the purpose in 1718 – 1720.
Between June 15 and November 10, 1749, an expedition headed by Celeron de Bienville, a French officer, traveled down the Allegheny and Ohio to bolster the French claim to the region.
Appointed as provincial governor of Louisiana by the company, Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville founded the city of New Orleans in 1718, and the company appointed Pierre Dugué de Boisbriand as commander of the Illinois Country.
Led by former Rangers Hamer and B. M. " Manny " Gault, the posse included Sheriff Henderson Jordan and Deputy Prentiss Oakley of Bienville Parish, Louisiana, and Dallas County Deputies Bob Alcorn and Ted Hinton.
* Gayarre makes reference to original reports by Bienville, making his numbers more reliable.
A native of Jamestown in Bienville Parish in north Louisiana, Smith was scouted by Buck O ' Neil and drafted by the Cubs in the 1975 Major League Baseball Draft.
While waiting for a new governor to arrive, Bienville helped establish a Charity Hospital which had been endowed by a sailor named Jean Louis.
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