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Article: New Orleans, Louisiana
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NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA
The city of New Orleans, Louisiana, is situated on the Mississippi River. It is about 100 miles (160 kilometers) north the Gulf of Mexico, making it a strategic port of entry to the North American mainland. Before the arrival of Europeans in the 1500s Louisiana was home to the Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Natchez Indians who had lived there for thousands of years. French explorer Robert Cavelier (1643
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1687) sailed down the Mississippi River in 1682 in search of a westward route from Canada into the interior. He claimed the entire river basin for France. The claim consisted of roughly the central third of the present-day United States. La Salle named it Louisiana ...
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