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Jacques Marquette

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French missionary who accompanied Louis Joliet in exploring the upper Mississippi River valley (1637-1675)

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In 1673, an expedition headed by Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette was the first recorded to have crossed the Chicago Portage and traveled along the Chicago River. Source: Internet

Louisiana Louisiana before 1736 On May 17, 1673, explorers Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette began exploring the Mississippi River, known to the Sioux as does Tongo, or to the Miami-Illinois as missisipioui (the great river). Source: Internet

In 1673, Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet pushed off from the site of modern St. Ignace toward one of these wild-ricepaddy patches in the center of what is now Wisconsin. Source: Internet

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