The Wrecking of La Salle's Ship Aimable and the Trial of Claude Aigron

by Robert S. Weddle

Book Overview

When Robert Cavelier, sieur de La Salle, landed on the Texas coast in 1685, bent on founding a French colony, his enterprise was doomed to failure. Not only was he hundreds of miles from his intended landfall-the mouth of the Mississippi-but his supply ship, Aimable, was wrecked at the mouth of Matagorda Bay, leaving the colonists with scant provisions and little protection against local Indian tribes. In anger and disgust, he struck out...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029272358X
• ISBN13: 9780292723580
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"