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Message: <blockquote data-quote="susiedriver" data-source="post: 48098">crappie,  From Wikipedia: New Orleans was founded in 1718 by the French as La Nouvelle-Orlans, under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville. The site was selected because it was a rare bit of natural high ground along the flood-prone banks of the lower Mississippi, and was adjacent to a Native American trading route and portage between the Mississippi and Lake Pontchartrain via Bayou St. John (known to the natives as Bayou Choupique). A community of French fur trappers and traders had existed along the bayou (in what is now the middle of New Orleans) for at least a decade before the official founding of the city. Nouvelle-Orlans became the capital of French Louisiana in 1722, replacing Biloxi in that role.  In 1763, the colony was ceded to the Spanish Empire</blockquote>