Samuel de Champlain Samuel de Champlain, who’s known as “The Father of New France” was a French explorer during the 17th century. He also was a navigator, cartographer, soldier, administrator, and chronicler of New France. He is famous for discovering Lake Champlain, Quebec City, and he helped establish the governments of New France. Champlain was born in 1574 in Brouage, to a family of marines and sea captains. He was the son of Antonio de Champlain ( a captain in the French marines), and his mother’s maiden name is Marguerite Leroy. His hometown had many big ports and ships, so he was very connected to boats when he was little. He had very little education, but he was able to become very educated by himself. He knew a lot of things because he taught them to himself. While he was still young, he entered the army. His first voyage took place in 1598 with his uncle. He was on his own for his next trip which lasted 2 years. He was in France from 1603 until 1607. They then found some West Indians that …show more content…
The indians had created the birch-bark canoe. They had started a war against their enemies and Champlain had to settle the argument. Champlain was basically a sea man by birth. He was born into a family of sea captains and his father was a really good and experienced sea captain. His uncle went with him on his first trip. When he was a little boy, his hometown was filled to the gills with docks and huge ships which encouraged his love of boats and exploring. He also had to work for King Henry and do many other things containing maps and boats. He found the love of sailing and exploring because he had very good motivational things to push him along his journey. After his exploration, he was known as “The Father of New France”. He is called that because he found Quebec City in the year 1608. He had 3 daughters, Hope, Charity, and Faith de
He also joined slave revolution and served as a doctor for the troops. After the French abolished slavery he stopped the revolt and joined the French side against Spain and England. So he was moral because in a way the he was helping his enemy. He assembled and headed the commission that created Saint Dominigue’s Constitution of 1801. With his courage and generosity he gained respect from the people around him and also earned the title “Papa Toussaint” because he was known as the father of his
Samuel de Champlain, who is referred to as the Father of New France, was born in the Brouage, Saintonge province, Western France. He was born to a protestant family around 1570. His father Anthoine de Champlain was a sea captain. The fact that his father worked in the high sea as a navigator, gave Samuel a strong desire to be a sailor and an explorer. This came when he was barely twenty years, under the guide of François Grave, he made his first voyage trip to the North America. Samuel Champlain never acquired a formal education in either Greek or Latin literature, but he learnt to navigate, drawing art of nautical charts, and writing. He also learnt the fighting techniques as part of a requirement for French sailors and later he was enrolled as a soldier in the army under King Henry.
Marquis de Lafayette was a very tactical and smart war general. He was very respected and was The Hero of Two Worlds because he fought for France and America. Marquis was born on September 6, 1757 in Chavaniac, France. Marquis was very young when he was first commissioned an officer, he was only 13 years old. He started to the travel the New World to seek glory. Then he was made a Major General at the age of 19. When he was first a major general he was given no troops to commission at the time. In the Battle of Brandywine he was injured and had to force an early retreat. He also served in the Battle of Rhode Island. In the middle of that war he had to return to France to receive more troops. After those battles he sailed to America in 1780
Jacques Cartier was born in St. Malo, France on December 31st 1491. Jacques Cartier is significant to the contact and colonization of New France because he led three main French expeditions in to what is called Canada and made many of the land claims French had at the time. He is the European credited with naming Canada from the First Nations word “kanata” which means village or settlement. He is significant to French colonization because he was the one who originally laid down French claims in North America. In 1534, Francis I of French commissioned him to explore the northern part of what is now Canada, to look for gold and spices. His first journey took him, two ships and a crew of 61 to the St. Laurence seaway where he stumbled upon a First Nations tribe on July 7th. The two groups talked and swapped items, with is the first recorded trade between the French and the North American First Nations. Though the relationship wasn’t all sunshine and roses between the French and the First Nations tribes! The relationship was tarnished when Cartier “claimed” Gaspé Bay, put up a 30-foot cross at Pointe-Penouille, lied to Donnacona, the Native chief in the area saying the cross was...
The Marquis de Lafayette is best remembered for the part he played in the American War of Independence. He contributed in helping the Americans gain free control over the colonies by breaking away from British home rule. For sixty years he fought with consistency and insight for political ideals and social reforms that have dominated the history of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Hence, Lafayette can be attributed to the spreading of liberty and freedom throughout America and France. Therefore, he is viewed as a symbol of liberalism in a once absolutist world.
In 1783 he married Alice Peguit and together they had seven children. When he was younger he learned how to read and write and he wanted his children to have the same skills in their lives. He helped build and finance one of the first integrated schools in America. Later in his life he was one of the First colored men to enter through the front door of the white house. He used his education and money to help ensure racial
Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer who was in part one of the main participants in the “Age of Discovery.” Columbus growing up studied mathematics, astronomy, cartography and navigation. As Columbus got older he started to
October 22nd, 1781- Marks the birth of her oldest son, Louis Joseph Xavier François, He was given the title “Dauphin of France”.
René Descartes was a French philosopher born in La Haye, France, on March 31, 1596. In the 17th century. Now that town is now named after him, because of the great things he has done. He spent most of his life in the Dutch Republic He had two siblings and was the youngest. His father and mother's name were Joachim and Jeanne Brochard. His mother died before his first birthday. In addition, his father was in the provincial parliament as a council member. After their mother died, Joachim had the kids go live with their grandmother on their mom's side. They stayed there even though their father eventually remarried. Even though their father did not want them around, he still wanted the best education for his children so he sent René when he was eight, to boarding school to the Jesuit college of Henri IV in La Flèche. And he stayed there until he was 15.
Another great navigator from Portugal was Henry the navigator, he was the prince of Portugal who began to establish an observatory and also a school of navigation, and he also directed many long voyages that ignited the growth of Portugal’s colonial empire.
He was a man who made French stronger, provided his own legacy and impression that will most
From 1566 to 1569 he sailed on two slave-trading voyages with his cousin and partner Sir John Hawkins. He is another famous sea dog in his time. They went to Africa and got slaves and sold them to the Western Indians. Portugal and Spain were not happy about this voyage that England made because they were giving Portugal competition with slave trade and ...
	Don Juan Ponce de Leon was a Spanish conqueror and explorer. He was born around 1460 in San Tervas de Campos, Spain. Ponce de Leon lived during an age of great discovery and excitement. Ponce de Leon is well known, claiming and naming what is now Florida, the discovery of Puerto Rico, and his never-ending search for the old time classic, the Fountain of Youth!
Charles Perrault was born in 1628 and was of French descent. He was from a very wealthy family. His father was a lawyer, and his three brothers grew up to have successful careers as well. Perrault was able to attend the best schools, but preferred to be self-taught so he dropped out of
Cook was fascinated with exploring and decided to be a navigator as his career. At the age of fifteen, he went to sea for the first time as a ship boy on a small ship called the Freelove. While working on the ship, Cook spent his free time learning math and navigation. James learned everything he knew about navigating there. Navigating in the stormy North Sea was a hard job especially as a fifteen-year-old boy.