The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1874-06-06


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lean prodigy Racine pronounced
bin o poet Bossaei predicted that
lie would b' q great orator end
Tillars called him a Marsba'l Of
France in embryo. lie died in 1922,
not thirty years Of eye eommandant
Of Fort Biloxi.
Whata gifted end remarkable band
| OF brother or the ten distinguished
sons Of Charles Lemoine Of Canada,
a native Of Normandy, and himself
a noted leader in the wars Of the
French and the Iroquois, Eve Of them,
we're Immediately and CALAMITY con.
cerned in the French occupation Of
our Gulf coast.
Twelve years had elapsed since the
disastrous expedition Of La Sale, who
in lis efforts to discover the mouth Of
the "Hidden River mississippi, had
gone too far west, and landed at
Matagorda Bay, Texas, and after.
wards had been assassinated on
Trinity river by one Of his own men {:
and nothing more had been attempted
by the French towards colonizing
Louisiana. In 1868 an expedition
under NJ. d'Iberville was seat ont by
the French king to discover and ex-
plore the mouth of the Mississippi,
which never yet had been entered
from the sea. DIberville, one OF the
above mentioned brothers, a Cana
dian by birth, was reputed the most
skillful naval officer in the service of
France, and had already greatly dis
tinguished himself in confess with
the British and now was to transfer
the theatre Of his operations from the
SHOWS and ice bergs Of Hudson's Bay
and St. Lawrence to the burning
sands of Florida and the islands Of the
Gulf. After touching at Massacre.
which he afterwards called Dapphine
Island, lat Mobile Bay he sailed
westward and finding the waters
shallow, he anchored his vessels near
the Chandelier groups, while he ex-
ploved with boats the channel betw cen
Ship and Cat Islands, and with his
colony landed upon the former.
Here he erected huts for his people
and afterwards discovered in his
boats, the Pascagoula River and the
tribe Of Biloxi indians. In two
barges with 4S men, n commanded
by his brother Bienville, he coasted
westward and on March 81, 1899, he
discovered and entered for the first
time, from the sea, the "Hidden
River" (.Nississippi). He returned to
Ship Island through the inland route
of lakes Maurepas and Pontchartmin
and soon afterwards 1883, as says
the historian /: HE selected O site
and began to build a fort upon the
northeast shore of the Bay Of Biloxi,
about fifteen miles north of Ship
Island. Here upon a sandy shore
and under a burning sun upon a pine
barren be settled his colony about
eighty miles northeast from the pres
ent city Of New Orleans. This oc
cupation. protected by a fort, under
the command of Sauvollc, with four
bastions and defended by twelve can
non vas the sign of French jnrisdic-
ton which was to extend from Bay of
Pensacola to Rio del Norte."
Biloxi remained the Headquarters
Of the commandant until 1902 when it
was removed to Mobile Bay. In
100 a fort was erected by Ibervilie
Of the Mississippi River, th~irty-eight
miles below the present city Of New
Orleans.
But a charter was given to the
Western Company" in I'LL, with
extensive privileges, and immediately
a controversy sprane up between
Biepyille. the Governor of the uroy-