Mariners go down with ship, lose 2-1

perhaps the voyage was doomed from the start

In 1684 French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle set sail from Rochefort, France with four newly built ships and 300 men. His goal was the mouth of the newly discovered Mississippi river, with the intention of building a new colony for the French crown. Strategically placed in the Gulf of Mexico, a base in the Mississippi delta would both block further English expansion and allow for the...