1910 painting of Jean Nicolet's 1634 arrival in Wisconsin
Jean Nicolet (Nicollet), Sieur de Belleborne (c. 1598 – October 1642) was a French coureur des bois noted for exploring Lake Michigan, Mackinac Island, Green Bay, and being the first European to set foot in what is now the U.S. state of Wisconsin.
JeanNicolet (Nicollet), Sieur de Belleborne (c. 1598 – October 1642) was a French coureur des bois noted for exploring Lake Michigan, Mackinac Island...
European to visit what became Wisconsin was probably the French explorer JeanNicolet. He canoed west from Georgian Bay through the Great Lakes in 1634, and...
Champlain founded Quebec (1608) and explored the Great Lakes. In 1634, JeanNicolet founded La Baye des Puants (present-day Green Bay), which is one of the...
Nicolet High School is a public secondary school located in Glendale, Wisconsin. It is the only school in the Nicolet Unified School District, which serves...
European to visit what became Wisconsin was probably the French explorer JeanNicolet. He canoed west from Georgian Bay through the Great Lakes in 1634, and...
Winnebago, Miami,Ottawa and Potawatomi peoples. The French explorer JeanNicolet is believed to have been the first European to reach Lake Michigan, possibly...
people. The only living namesake was Francis J. O'Gara, the purser of SS JeanNicolet, who was thought to have been killed in a submarine attack, but in fact...
explorer JeanNicolet's approach and landing. Red Banks, near the present-day city of Green Bay, Wisconsin, later developed in this area. Nicolet, looking...
known to have landed in Wisconsin was JeanNicolet. In 1634, Samuel de Champlain, governor of New France, sent Nicolet to contact the Ho-Chunk people, make...
chiefs. Canada The first European likely to have seen Mackinac Island is JeanNicolet, a French-Canadian coureur des bois, during his 1634 explorations. The...
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traveled to the region with their coureur de bois and explorers, such as JeanNicolet, Robert de LaSalle, Jacques Marquette, Nicholas Perrot, Pierre Le Moyne...
French. It is abbreviated from the French Nadouessioux, first attested by JeanNicolet in 1640. The name is sometimes said to be derived from "Nadowessi" (plural...
Marquette (North America) JeanNicolet (North America) Jeanne Baré (circumnavigation) Nicolas Baudin (Indian Ocean, Australia) Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la...
des Puants in 1634 by JeanNicolet. Nicolas Perrot, who was sent by Father Claude-Jean Allouez, continued the work that Nicolet had started. In 1671,...
is named in honor of the pioneer JeanNicolet. It has several tributaries including the River Bulstrode and the Nicolet River Southwest. Its watershed is...
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