Explorers of the Colonial Southwest of North America - Alexander Roderick McLeod, Alonso de Leon, Antonio de Olivares, Dominguez-Escalante Expedition, (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 52. Chapters: Alexander Roderick McLeod, Alonso De Leon, Antonio de Olivares, Dominguez-Escalante Expedition, Estevanico, Ewing Young, Felipe de Neve, Fernando Rivera y Moncada, Francisco Garces, Gabriel Moraga, Gaspar de Portola, Gaspar Perez de Villagra, Heinrich Lienhard, Isidro de Espinosa, Jean-Francois de Galaup, comte de Laperouse, Jedediah Smith, Jim Savage, John C. Fremont, John Ebbetts, Jose Antonio Romeu, Jose Joaquin Moraga, Juan Bautista de Anza, Juan de Salas (friar), Juan Dominguez de Mendoza, Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, Junipero Serra, Luis de Moscoso Alvarado, Marcos de Niza, Nikolai Rezanov, Pedro de Alberni, Peter Skene Ogden, Sebastian Vizcaino. Excerpt: Jean Francois de Galaup, comte de Laperouse (pronounced: 23 August 1741 1788?) was a French Navy officer and explorer whose expedition vanished in Oceania. (Not to be confused with Philippe-Isidore Picot de Lapeyrouse, Baron de Lapeyrouse, after whom the genus Lapeirousia was named.) Laperouse victoriously led the frigate Astree in the Naval battle of Louisbourg, 21 July 1781, by Auguste-Louis de Rossel de Cercy.Jean-Francois de Galaup was born near Albi, France. Laperouse was the name of a family property that he added to his name. He studied in a Jesuit college and entered the naval college in Brest when he was fifteen. In 1757 he was posted to the Celebre and participated in a supply expedition to the fort of Louisbourg in New France; its position is in present-day Nova Scotia. Laperouse also was in a second supply expedition in 1758 to Louisbourg, but that was in the early years of the seven years' war; the fort was under siege and the expedition was forced to make a circuitous route around Newfoundland to avoid British patrols. In 1759 Laperouse was wounded in the Battle of Quiberon Bay, where he was serving aboard the Formidable. He was captured and briefly imprisoned before being paroled back to France; he was formally exchanged in December 1760. He participated in a 1762 attempt by the French to gain control of Newfoundland, escaping with the fleet when the British arrived in force to drive them out. Following the Franco-American alliance, Laperouse fought against the Royal Navy off the American coast, and victoriously led the frigate Astree in the Naval battle of Louisbourg, 21 July 1781. He was promoted to rank of commodore when he defeated the English frigate Ariel in the West Indies. In August 1782 he made his name by capturing two English forts (Prince of Wales Fort and York Fort) on the coast of Hudson Bay, but allowed the survivors, including Governor Samuel Hearne of Prince of Wales Fort, to sail off to England in exchange for a promise to releas