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    Jean Nicolet (Nicollet), Sieur de Belleborne (1598 – 29 October 1642) was a French coureur des bois noted for exploring Lake Michigan, Mackinac Island...
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  • on Jean Nicolet. I-8 then began searching for Jean Nicolet′s survivors with a searchlight while a member of her crew called out for Jean Nicolet′s captain...
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    Nicolet. The residents of the town pronounce the final "t" in Nicolet, however people outside of the region do not. The town took its name from Jean Nicolet...
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    European to visit what became Wisconsin was probably the French explorer Jean Nicolet. He canoed west from Georgian Bay through the Great Lakes in 1634, and...
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    Nicollet or Nicolet may refer to: Nicolet, Quebec, the county seat of Nicolet-Yamaska Regional County Municipality Nicolet River, Quebec, Canada Nicolet (federal...
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    Champlain founded Quebec (1608) and explored the Great Lakes. In 1634, Jean Nicolet founded La Baye des Puants (present-day Green Bay), which is one of the...
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    is part of the Green Bay metropolitan area. When the first European, Jean Nicolet, visited the place in 1634–35, De Pere was the site of a polyglot settlement...
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    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...
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    (NFL). Samuel de Champlain, the founder of New France, commissioned Jean Nicolet to form a peaceful alliance with Native Americans in the western areas...
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    European to visit what became Wisconsin was probably the French explorer Jean Nicolet. He canoed west from Georgian Bay through the Great Lakes in 1634, and...
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    Winnebago, Miami, Ottawa and Potawatomi peoples. The French explorer Jean Nicolet is believed to have been the first European to reach Lake Michigan, possibly...
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    Bryan's US Navy Armed Guardsmen. The United States Merchant Navy ship, SS Jean Nicolet operated by the Oliver J. Olson & Company, was torpedoed by Japanese...
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  • known to have landed in Wisconsin was Jean Nicolet. In 1634, Samuel de Champlain, governor of New France, sent Nicolet to contact the Ho-Chunk people, make...
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    Jean-Baptiste Nicolet (16 April 1728 – 27 December 1796) was an 18th-century French actor and manager. He was the eldest son of puppeteer, dance master...
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    tribal chiefs. The first European likely to have seen Mackinac Island is Jean Nicolet, a French-Canadian coureur des bois, during his 1634 explorations. The...
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    Neumann English 19th Africa Gennady Nevelskoy Russian 19th Sakhalin Jean Nicolet French 17th Northwest Territory (United States) Joseph Nicollet French-American...
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    of Le Puans near the saltwater seas to the north. When the explorers Jean Nicolet and Samuel de Champlain learned of the "sea" connection to the tribe's...
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  • Saint-Pierre. Jean-Paul Le Gardeur was born at Ville-Marie on October 4, 1661, son of Jean-Baptiste Legardeur de Repentigny (1632-1709) and Marguerite Nicolet de...
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    unincorporated community located to the west of Benderville. In 1634, Jean Nicolet landed at Red Banks becoming the first European to explore the present...
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    people. The only living namesake was Francis J. O'Gara, the purser of SS Jean Nicolet, who was thought to have been killed in a submarine attack, but in fact...
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    the town of Scott, Brown County, Wisconsin, United States. In 1634, Jean Nicolet landed at Red Banks becoming the first European to explore the present...
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    explorer Jean Nicolet's approach and landing. Red Banks, near the present-day city of Green Bay, Wisconsin, later developed in this area. Nicolet, looking...
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  • Marquette (North America) Jean Nicolet (North America) Jeanne Baré (circumnavigation) Nicolas Baudin (Indian Ocean, Australia) Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la...
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    Peninsula State Park and is part of the state park. The French explorer Jean Nicolet reportedly landed on the island. The island is part of the Town of Gibraltar...
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    traveled to the region with their coureur de bois and explorers, such as Jean Nicolet, Robert de LaSalle, Jacques Marquette, Nicholas Perrot, Pierre Le Moyne...
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    the Wyandotte and the Odawa people. In 1634, French colonial explorer Jean Nicolet navigated the channels of Les Cheneaux while attempting to reach Michillimackinac...
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  • des Puants in 1634 by Jean Nicolet. Nicolas Perrot, who was sent by Father Claude-Jean Allouez, continued the work that Nicolet had started. In 1671,...
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  • in 1647 to his father. His wife was Marguerite Nicolet, the daughter of French explorer Jean Nicolet. France portal North America portal History portal...
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    trader Étienne Brûlé was the first European to visit the lake in 1610. Jean Nicolet, another French trader and explorer had a "cabin and trading-house" for...
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    French. It is abbreviated from the French Nadouessioux, first attested by Jean Nicolet in 1640. The name is sometimes said to be derived from "Nadowessi" (plural...
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