Oct 20  The Mississippi is Conquered!
Channel: Natchez National Historical Park
Date: 2016-10-20

Camille Taylor, a junior at Trinity Episcopal School, presents today's Natchez History Minute about the inaugural voyage of the steamboat New Orleans down the Mississippi River that began on this day, Oct. 20 in 1811. Upon the boat's arrival in the city of New Orleans,  inventor Robert Fulton remarked, "The Mississippi is conquered!"