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The following is a list of of the Illinois Country, which came to be known sometime after 1718 as Upper Louisiana.

French period

This period included the entire Mississippi River and Missouri River basin above the mouth of the Arkansas River.

Commandants subordinate to Canada

Commandants subordinate to Louisiana

  • Pierre de Boisbriand (17181725)
  • Robert de Saint-Ange (17301732)
  • Pierre d'Artaguiette (17321736/7)
  • Alphonse de La Buissonnière (17371740)
  • Jean-Baptiste de Sainte-Claire (17401742) interim
  • major de Bertet (17421749)
  • Jean-Baptiste de Sainte-Claire (17491751), interim
  • Barthélemy de Macarty-Mactigue (17511760)
  • Pierre-Joseph Neyon de Villiers (17601764)
  • Louis Saint-Ange de Bellerive (17641770)

    Spanish period

    This included just the west side of the Mississippi River above the mouth of the Arkansas River in Louisiana (New Spain)

    Commandants of Upper Louisiana

  • don Francisco Rui (17671768)
  • don Pedro Piernas (1768– ?)
  • Louis Saint-Ange de Bellerive (? –1770)

    Lieutenant Governors of Upper Louisiana

  • don Pedro Piernas (1770– ?)
  • don Francisco Cruzat (c. 1778)
  • don Fernando de Leyba (17781780)
  • don Francisco Cruzat (1780 – ?)
  • don Manuel Pérez (c. 1788)
  • Zénon Trudeau (1793– ?)
  • Charles de Hault Delassus (1799-1804)(External Link)

    French Republic period

    This period represents the few days the French under Napoleon controlled what became the Louisiana Purchase. Jurisdiction was above the 33rd parallel on the west side of the Mississippi River.
  • Amos Stoddard (1804-1804)

    Sources

  • Charles J. Balesi (1992). The Time of the French in the Heart of North America, 1673-1818. Chicago: Alliance Française. ISBN 1-881370-00-3
  • French Commandants
  • Dictionary of Canadian Biography online
  • St. Louis in Colonial & Revolutionary War Times
  • The French Settlement :: Jefferson National Expansion MemorialFurther Information

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