List of commandants of the Illinois Country

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

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[edit] French period

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

[edit] Commandants subordinate to Canada

[edit] Commandants subordinate to Louisiana

[edit] Spanish period

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

[edit] Commandants of Upper Louisiana

  • don Francisco Rui (1767–1768)
  • don Pedro Piernas (1768– ?)
  • Louis Saint-Ange de Bellerive (? –1770)

[edit] Lieutenant Governors of Upper Louisiana

[edit] 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.

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