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  2. French colonial empire - Wikipedia

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    [97] In 1905, the French abolished slavery in most of French West Africa. [98] From 1906 to 1911, over a million slaves in French West Africa fled from their masters to earlier homes. [99] In Madagascar over 500,000 slaves were freed following French abolition in 1896. [100]

  3. French colonization of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    The French in the Mississippi Valley (University of Illinois Press, 1965) McDermott, John F., ed. Frenchmen and French ways in the Mississippi Valley (1969) Marshall, Bill,ed. France and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History (3 Vol 2005) Moogk, Peter N. La Nouvelle France: The Making of French Canada -A Cultural History (2000). 340 pp.

  4. List of French possessions and colonies - Wikipedia

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    In the 19th century, starting with the conquest of Algiers in 1830, France began to establish a new empire in Africa and Southeast Asia. The following is a list of all countries that were part of the French colonial empires from 1534; 490 years ago () to the present, either entirely or in part, either under French sovereignty or as mandate.

  5. Jean-Jacques Dessalines - Wikipedia

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    The French initially appointed him as governor-general of the colony. Louverture wanted Saint-Domingue to have more autonomy. He directed the creation of a new constitution to establish that, as well as rules for how the colony would operate under freedom. He also named himself governor-for-life, while still swearing his loyalty to France.

  6. Colonisation of Africa - Wikipedia

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    While the British sought to follow a process of gradual transfer of power and thus independence, the French policy of assimilation faced some resentment, especially in North Africa. [22] The granting of independence in March 1956 to Morocco and Tunisia allowed a concentration on Algeria where there was a long ( 1954–62 ) and bloody armed ...

  7. European exploration of Africa - Wikipedia

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    Although the Napoleonic Wars distracted the attention of Europe from exploratory work in Africa, those wars nevertheless exercised great influence on the future of the continent, both in Egypt and South Africa. The occupation of Egypt (1798–1803), first by France and then by Great Britain, resulted in an effort by the Ottoman Empire to regain ...

  8. French Africa - Wikipedia

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    Evans, Martin. "From colonialism to post-colonialism: the French empire since Napoleon." in Martin S. Alexander, ed., French History since Napoleon (1999) pp: 391–415. Gamble, Harry. Contesting French West Africa: Battles over Schools and the Colonial Order, 1900–1950 (U of Nebraska Press, 2017). 378 pp. online review

  9. Seven Years' War - Wikipedia

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    Map of the British and French settlements in North America in 1750, before the French and Indian War (1754 to 1763), which was part of the Seven Years' War. The boundary between British and French possessions in North America was largely undefined in the 1750s. France had long claimed the entire Mississippi River basin. This was disputed by ...