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Which french explorer sailed down the mississippi river to its basin? verrazano

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Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle

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In 1682 René-Robert Cavelier, a French explorer,was sent by King Louis XIV to travel south from Canada and sail down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico. He was the first European to travel the entire of the Mississippi River in the seventeenth century.
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