La Salle was murdered, the stores were destroyed, the Spaniards and Indians came and killed or captured nearly all the colonists.

A few only gained the Mississippi and made their way to Canada.

In 1699, another French expedition appeared in the Gulf of Mexico.

This time the mouth of the Mississippi was easily discovered.
But the colonists settled on the shores of Mobile Bay.

It was not until 1718 that New Orleans was founded.
[Sidenote: The French on the Ohio, 1749.