Rene and sieur both set out north towards the gulf of mexico which were already taken by spain. They set out with the hopes of building a french fort along the mouth of the mississippi river. But the boat went off course and they landed in a different area then the intended area. He ended up landing at modern day Matagorda, Texas but came a cost with 2 ships destroyed including la belle. The remains can be found for researching purposes or for looking at. He did end up building a fort along the garcitas creek of the mississippi river, but like all failed expedition his reign eventually fell by dying from his comrades and by 1689, all the karankawas bad health ended up taking out most of salles men. With the failure of the expedition from salle, it sparked spains interest again. an expedition led by alonzo de leon, rescued some survivors of salles expeditions. Then in 1690, france established the first missions in texas, and it sparked many missions and colonies

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