La Belle (Frigate)
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- La Belle : the archaeology of a seventeenth-century ship of New World colonization, 2016:ECIP title page.
- The wreck of the Belle, the ruin of La Salle, c2001:ECIP galley (La Belle; the Belle; a barque longue, or light frigate, of the Royal French Navy; the last of four vessels brought to America by Robert Cavelier de La Salle on his final mission)
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La Belle was one of Robert de La Salle's four ships when he explored the Gulf of Mexico with the ill-fated mission of starting a French colony at the mouth of the Mississippi River in 1685. La Belle was wrecked in present-day Matagorda Bay the following year, dooming La Salle's Texas colony to failure. The wreckage of La Belle lay forgotten until it was discovered by a team of state archaeologists in 1995. The discovery of La Salle's flagship was regarded as one of the most important archaeological finds of the century not only in Texas but in all of North America, and a major excavation was launched by the state of Texas that, over a period of about a year, recovered the entire shipwreck and over a million artifacts.
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