A gray fox with a patch on one eye -- confidence man, city slicker, lebensraum specialist -- tries to take over Catfish Bend in this third relaxed allegory from Mr. Burman's refreshing Louisiana animal community.

* 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Baton Rouge – along the Mississippi River near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Confederate troops attempt to take the city, but are driven back by fire from Union gunboats.

* 1862 – American Civil War: Forces under Union Admiral David Farragut demand the surrender of the Confederate city of New Orleans, Louisiana.

* The city of Franklin, the parish seat of St. Mary Parish in south Louisiana

The land purchased contained all of present-day Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska ; parts of Minnesota that were west of the Mississippi River ; most of North Dakota ; most of South Dakota ; northeastern New Mexico ; northern Texas ; the portions of Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado east of the Continental Divide ; Louisiana west of the Mississippi River, including the city of New Orleans ; and small portions of land that would eventually become part of the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan.

* August 29, 2005, Katrina ( Category 3 at landfall ) struck and devastated southeastern Louisiana, where it breached and undermined levees in New Orleans, causing 80 % of the city to flood.

The game was played on January 16, 1972, at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans, Louisiana, the second time the Super Bowl was played in that city.

* April 25 – American Civil War – Capture of New Orleans: Forces under Union Admiral David Farragut capture the Confederate city of New Orleans, Louisiana.

* August 5 – American Civil War – Battle of Baton Rouge: Along the Mississippi River near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Confederate troops drive Union forces back into the city.

They were begun by French settlers in Louisiana in the 18th century to protect the city of New Orleans.

The city has a vibrant mix of the cultures found throughout Louisiana, from which it developed its motto: " Authentic Louisiana at every turn ".

* Lafayette, Louisiana, a city

* The city of New Orleans, in Louisiana, U. S., is named after him.

They differ from consolidated city – counties such as Jacksonville, Florida, New Orleans, Louisiana, Indianapolis, Indiana and San Francisco, California, where a city and county have been merged into one unified jurisdiction.

In 1785, Juan Filhiol established the first European outpost in Louisiana, called Fort Miro, which became a city in 1805.

The HQ and other units of the 256th IBCT reside in the city of Lafayette, Louisiana.

Note: The " City of Lafayette " in Jefferson Parish, as it is recorded in U. S. censuses until 1870, should not be confused with the present city of Lafayette, Louisiana in Lafayette Parish

The city of Gretna, Louisiana, the parish seat of Jefferson Parish, made news after its police force participated, along with Crescent City Connection Police and Jefferson Parish Sheriff's deputies, in a road block on the Crescent City Connection Bridge in the days following Hurricane Katrina.

Along major highways, the city is east of Jackson, Mississippi ; west of Birmingham, Alabama ; northeast of New Orleans, Louisiana ; and southeast of Memphis, Tennessee.

The city of Camden marks its founding as 1824, after the Louisiana Purchase brought a wave of migrants from the Southern United States.

Junction City is a city in Union County, Arkansas, United States, and is the twin city of neighboring Junction City, Louisiana.

On December 9, 1862, Sergeant Edwin H. Fay, an unusual Louisianan who held A.B. and M.A. degrees from Harvard University and who before the war was headmaster of a private school for boys in Louisiana, wrote his wife: `` I saw Pemberton and he is the most insignificant puke I ever saw.

* 1929 – Huey P. Long Governor of Louisiana is impeached by the Louisiana House of Representatives.

* 1862 – American Civil War: the Confederate ironclad is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering damage in a battle with near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

The world's longest beam bridge is Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in southern Louisiana in the United States, at, with individual spans of.

In Earnest J. Gaines ' novel, " A Lesson Before Dying " Bayonne, Louisiana is the name of a Cajun town central to the book.

The common law constitutes the basis of the legal systems of: England and Wales, Northern Ireland, Ireland, federal law in the United States and the law of individual U. S. states ( except Louisiana ), federal law throughout Canada and the law of the individual provinces and territories ( except Quebec ), Australia ( both federal and individual states ), Kenya, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Brunei, Pakistan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, The Bahamas, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, St. Vincent and the Granadines, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Trinidad and Tobago, and many other generally English-speaking countries or Commonwealth countries ( except Scotland, which is bijuridicial, and Malta ).

Historically notable among the Louisiana code's differences from common law is the role of property rights among women, particularly in inheritance gained by widows.

Roman Dutch Commons law is a bijuridical or mixed system of law similar to the common law system in Scotland and Louisiana.

Cajun cuisine ( ) is the style of cooking named for the French-speaking Acadian or " Cajun " immigrants deported by the British from Acadia in Canada to the Acadiana region of Louisiana, USA.

" One variation is that crawfish boils are more popular in the southern regons of Louisiana, while pies are favored further north.

* 1803 – The Louisiana Purchase is completed at a ceremony in New Orleans.

In South Louisiana this practice is called Pocking Eggs and is slightly different.

Mainly or partially francophone or francosphere countries include France, Belgium ( Wallonia is almost entirely francophone, and there is a large French-speaking community in the Brussels-Capital Region and a few bordering municipalities ), Canada ( the province of Quebec is francophone, and there are large French-speaking communities in Manitoba, Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and other Canadian provinces ), United States ( South / Central Louisiana and parts of Maine ), Switzerland, Haiti, the French West Indies and several countries in Africa, including Congo, Burundi, Madagascar and Rwanda, that are former French or Belgian colonies.

In some countries such as France ( as well as in some jurisdictions of the United States, such as Louisiana and Georgia ) the " two-ballot " or " runoff election " plurality system is used.

The Mid-continent area is an area generally including Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, North Louisiana and the part of Texas away from the Gulf Coast.

* 1803 – The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people.

* 1811 – An unsuccessful slave revolt is led by Charles Deslondes in St. Charles and St. James, Louisiana.

His birthday, June 3, is celebrated in Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana and Tennessee ; in Alabama, it is celebrated on the first Monday in June.

** Bass ( Commonly known as green trout in south Louisiana )

The Gulf Coast of the United States, sometimes referred to as the Gulf South, South Coast, or 3rd Coast, comprises the coasts of American states that are on the Gulf of Mexico, which includes Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida and are known as the Gulf States.

* Opprobrium ( band ), American death metal band from Louisiana originally known as Incubus

The land that is now Missouri was acquired from France as part of the Louisiana Purchase and became known as the Missouri Territory.

A spicy tomato sauce known as sauce piquante is common in Louisiana Cajun cuisine, that can contain any seafood, poultry, or meats such as wild game.

In Louisiana Creole cuisine, there is a tomato sauce known as a Creole sauce.

In the US state of Louisiana, a non-native rodent known as a nutria have become so destructive to the local ecosystem that the state has initiated a bounty program to help control the population.

Some of the Acadians who had been relocated to France subsequently left for Louisiana, where their descendants are now known as Cajuns.

* Caddo Parish Middle Magnet School, a school in Shreveport, Louisiana, known as Caddo Middle Magnet

* Decatur Street ( New Orleans ), Louisiana, formerly known as " Levee Street "

The Louisiana Purchase Exposition, informally known as the St. Louis World's Fair, was an international exposition held in St. Louis, Missouri, United States in 1904.

Researchers have traced the ancestry of carriers from Louisiana families back to a single founder couple – not known to be Jewish – that lived in France in the 18th century.

The Spanish colonial government settled the earliest group of Acadian exiles west of New Orleans, in what is now south-central Louisiana — an area known at the time as Attakapas, and later the center of the Acadiana region.

People of Latin American origin, a number of early Filipino settlers ( notably in Saint Malo, Louisiana ), known as " Manilamen ," from the annual cross-Pacific Galleon or Manila Galleon trade with neighboring Acapulco, Mexico, descendants of African American slaves, and some Cuban Americans have also settled along the Gulf Coast and, in some cases, intermarried into Cajun families.

" Coppen's Zouaves were at Gettysburg, but they were not then known as " Louisiana Tigers.

The variety from Louisiana is known as Tasso ham and is often a staple of both Cajun and Creole cooking.

Their collective cultures are known as " Creole ", though many non-Louisianans do not distinguish between the two groups, or do not recognize the distinctions made in the New Orleans area between the original white colonists whose offspring were the original first born in Louisiana and Creoles that were a mixture of people of European ancestry and slave populations ( or free men and women of color ) and whose skin was mulatto for lack of a better descriptor.

The county was organized in 1812 and was originally a French colonial district ( French Louisiana ), named for the French King Louis IX, known as Saint Louis.

The Yellow Pine Christian Church, formerly known as Union Church, located south of Sibley, Louisiana | Sibley, Louisiana, was established in 1902.

This community was known as the " Gateway to Louisiana ".

The Camp receives its name from Leonidas Polk, the first Episcopal Bishop in Louisiana, known as the " Fighting Bishop of the Confederacy " and served as one of the major training camps during World War II.

The 2000 census counted 44, 915 people in the parish who are at least five years old of whom 31, 229 ( 69. 5 %) speak only English at home, 27. 44 % reported speaking French ( Colonial French also known as Plantation Society French ) or Cajun French at home, while 1. 52 % speak Louisiana Creole French.

* Henry E. Hardtner, lumberman known as " Louisiana's first conservationist ", member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature, La Salle Parish police juror, founder of Urania