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New Orleans - USA
New Orleans is the largest town in the federal state Louisiana in the USA. The town is regarded as an industrial center with a large port which connects the river Mississippi with the golf of Mexico.
Story of New Orleans
During the colonial times La Nouvelle-Orléans was founded for New Orleans by the Frenchman Jean Baptiste LeMoyne, Sieur de Bienville, 1718 under the French name. 1722 became the capital of Louisiana you. The colony went 1763 in the context of the agreement of San Ildefonso as a secret commission to the Spanish kingdom. However, no Spanish governor was employed to 1766. Some of the early French settlers weren't content with the Spanish power and asked Louisiana repeated to go back to France again.
In the American civil war it was conquered by the union peacefully very early. Through this a large part of the historical buildings has remained unchanged. It maintains the historical flair of the wealth which there was here during the 19th century also today. An important center of attraction in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was the famous red light district Storyville.
Hurricane Katrina (2005)
On August 28th, 2005 became New Orleans of the hurricane Katrina struck and with that victim of the natural disaster most serious until then on the U.S. ground. It was one of the four heaviest hurricanes which were measured in the USA with a strength of the category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale. The town was then inundated almost completely itself besides the damages by the hurricane. You had had a try in vain before to succeed with the first coercive evacuation in the history of the USA. For ten thousands of people who didn't have any opportunity to exit the town some makeshift emergency accomodations were fitted out, among other things in the super cathedral, the stadium of the town, with a capacity of 50,000 persons. About 30,000 people took up this refuge. Although the town was only met by the edge foothills of the hurricane, it was inundated almost completely primarily after several dykes broke. Undermined buildings caved in and made the situation worse considerably. Zugespült became with water, garbage and rubble, however, target of further streams of refugees was nevertheless "super cathedrals" having been of use for it as an emergency accomodation since the army there should allegedly distribute water and meal among the needy one. The conditions by water and power failure deteriorated inside the stadium at the same time.
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