Lasalle

Duration: 17 min

Creator: Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation

Description: Highlights significant events in the triumphant, yet tragic, career of Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle. Reveals him first as a young Jesuit novice who leaves the order for work in the New World. Traces his association with Frontenac, his relations with the Indians, his passage down the Mississippi, and his claiming of the Valley for France. Points out the many setbacks which hampered the attainment of his major objectives, and his ill-timed death which ended his attempt to establish a settlement at the mouth of the Mississippi.

Metadata Source:Catalog of Classroom Teaching Films for Georgia Schools, No. 10 (Georgia Department of Education)