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La Balize was moved by 1853 to the Southwest Pass when that became the main shipping channel, then rebuilt at Pilottown about five miles ( 8 km ) upriver above Head of Passes after being destroyed by a hurricane.
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The oldest European settlement in the parish was La Balize, where the French built and inhabited a crude fort by 1699 near the mouth of the Mississippi River.
They lived at La Balize with their families.
In the 18th and 19th century, the French settlement and fort that preceded Pilottown near the mouth of the Mississippi was known as La Balize, a name that meant " seamark " in French.
La Balize was located about ten miles downriver from Pilottown.
It replaced the earlier village of La Balize, that had been founded more than 160 years earlier downriver.
After the hurricane of September 14-15, 1860, blew its buildings down and destroyed the area in a storm surge, La Balize was finally abandoned.
The first French settlers had built a rude fort and dwellings for La Balize near the mouth of the Mississippi in 1699.
On July 19, 1820, Alabama captured four pirate ships off La Balize.
The currently active lobe is called the Birdfoot ( after its shape ) or Balize Delta ( after the first French settlement La Balize at the mouth of the river ).
In 1699 the French built their first crude fort at La Balize, on the Southeast Pass in Pass á Loutre, to control passage on the Mississippi.
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The most famous ballet of that time was called Ballet Comique De La Reine ( 1581 ).
A Bureau De La Demographie ( A. Romaniuk, Director ) was formed under AIMO in the Congo, to work in close rapport with the Section Statistique of the Secretariat General.
To settle this slight, O'Banion went down to the La Salle Theatre in the Loop, where, he had learned, Dave Miller was attending the opening of a musical comedy.
Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer was the regiment's first permanent commander and, like such generals as George S. Patton and Terry De La Mesa Allen in their rise to military prominence, Custer was a believer in blood and guts warfare.
De La Laude, commander of the Alabama post, had the friendship of the natives, and was able to make them look upon the British as poor competitors.
With a cop patrolling the road Muller would have to be inside a building -- if he was here at all, and not waiting for the prime minister somewhere between this street and the terminal building at La Guardia Airport.
Diario De La Marina was the oldest and most influential paper in Cuba, with a reputation for speaking out against tyranny.
On August 12, 2011, a plaque was unveiled on the Wolff building at Third Ave and La Mesa Bl commemorating Dwan and the Flying A Studios origins in La Mesa, California.
By the 6th century BC, the Celtic La Tène culture was well established.
" To fill out the schedule, most types of racing events were invented here, including the first hill climb ( Nice – La Turbie ) and a sprint that was, in spirit, the first drag race.
Braudel's first book, La Méditerranée et le Monde Méditerranéen à l ' Epoque de Philippe II ( 1949 ) ( The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II ) was his most influential.
It already included a large country house called Larrard House or Muntaner de Dalt House, and was next to a neighborhood of upper class houses called La Salut ( The Health ).
Sargon was claimed to be the son of La ' ibum or Itti-Bel, a humble gardener, and possibly a hierodule, or priestess to Ishtar or Inanna.
Henry de Montherlant's French drama La Reine morte was inspired by the conflict between King Afonso and Pedro and Inês.
But her paternity was questioned, as rumour said the king was impotent and the queen, Joan of Portugal, had an amorous affair with a nobleman named Beltrán de La Cueva.
The first ironclad battleship, with iron armour over a wooden hull, La Gloire, was launched by the French Navy in 1859 ; she prompted the British Royal Navy to build a counter.
Commissioned for an unknown occasion Salieri's Armida was based on Torquato Tasso's epic poem La Gerusalemme liberata ( Jerusalem Delivered ) and premiered on 2 June 1771.
Armida was soon followed by Salieri's first truly popular success ; a commedia per musica in the style of Carlo Goldoni La fiera di Venezia ( The Fair of Venice ).
La fiera was written for Carnival in 1772 and premiered on 29 January.
This uneven work was followed by another popular comedic success La locandiera ( Mine Hostess ), an adaptation of the classic and popular spoken stage comedy La locandiera by Carlo Goldoni, the libretto was prepared by Domenico Poggi.
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In his youth Diderot was originally a follower of Voltaire and his deist Anglomanie, but gradually moved away from this line of thought towards materialism and atheism, a move which was finally realised 1747 in the philosophical debate in the second part of his La Promenade du sceptique ( 1747 ).
In the 17th century, La Varenne and the notable chef of Napoleon and other dignitaries, Marie-Antoine Carême, moved toward fewer spices and more liberal usage of herbs and creamy ingredients, signaling the beginning of modern cuisine.
After exhausting their prospects in the East, the family moved to La Grange, Illinois, to play the Midwest.
When he was twelve, Sartre's mother remarried, and the family moved to La Rochelle, where he was frequently bullied.
Soon, it will be moved along the streets of Los Angeles ( La Tijera, Manchester, Crenshaw, and Martin Luther King Jr. boulevards ) to its final destination at the California Science Center.
The farmhouse used for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was moved from La Frontera ( Round Rock, Texas ) | La Frontera to Kingsland, Texas, and restored as a restaurant.
In 1838, he moved to Paris after the Italian censor objected to the production of Poliuto ( on the grounds that such a sacred subject was inappropriate for the stage ); there he wrote La fille du régiment, which became another success.
With the success of Lucia di Lammermoor in September 1835, Donizetti moved on to stagings of Maria Stuarda, the first under that name at La Scala in late 1835.
His family then moved to Vile Parle before finally Pu La Deshpande settled in Pune for educational and work purposes.
This changed in 1810 when Napoléon passed an imperial decree which moved the prefecture to La Rochelle.
The family, which had settled in the city's tough northern districts of Barbès and Saint-Denis, found little work in the region, and in the mid-1960s moved to the northern Marseille suburb of La Castellane.
A year after De La Hoya moved up to welterweight in 1997, Chávez fought Miguel Ángel González for the vacant WBC Light Welterweight title.
Díaz moved to Spain after graduating from school and he worked with a group that was widely successful, La Pandilla, which had 4 boys and 1 girl ( Mariblanca, now a Veterinarian in her home country ), but after the La Pandilla members grew up, he moved back to Puerto Rico, and created Menudo.
After having fled Lithuania at the end of World War II, his family had moved to New York, where Maciunas first came into contact with a group of avant-garde artists and musicians centered around John Cage and La Monte Young.
On March 12, 1997, De La Hoya moved up to the welterweight division and fought Pernell Whitaker ( 40 – 1 – 1 ).
He kept La Place, Louisiana, as his base of operations due to family obligations until his twenty-first birthday, when he moved his band to New Orleans, Louisiana.
In 1976, Venevisión moved their transmitters, which were located on the top of a building in La Colina, a neighborhood in Caracas where Venevisión's studios can be found, to Los Mecedores, near Venezolana de Televisión's studios and CANTV's installations.
Bayou La Batre was the first permanent settlement on the south Mobile County mainland and was founded in 1786, when Joseph Bouzage ( Bosarge ) moved into the area and was awarded a Spanish land grant on the bayou's west bank.
David Strawn had moved to La Salle County, Illinois, with his family in 1830 from Preble County, Ohio, and in 1835 had settled in South Ottawa Township.
The Episcopal Church moved from Port Tobacco to the new county seat at La Plata.
In 1895 the county seat was moved to La Plata, which further contributed to the decline of the town.
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