Casquette girl
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A casquette girl but also known historically as a casket girl or a Pelican girl, was a woman brought from France to the French colonies of Louisiana to marry. The name derives from the small chests, k
Engraving depicting the departure of "comfort girls" to the New World.
Old Mobile Site
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The Old Mobile Site was the location of the French settlement La Mobile and the associated Fort Louis de La Louisiane, in the French colony of New France in North America, from 1702 until 1712. The si
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…in 1719, and New Orleans in 1728. The 23 Pelican Girls arrived first on Massacre Island in late July then took shallow-draft boats up Mobile Bay to 27 Mile Bluff weighing anchor on August 1, 1704. They had sailed from France in April of that year on the ship Le Pélican. A stop in Cuba had resulted in many of the…
Le Moyne d'Iberville
Le Moyne de Bienville