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From that base, La Salle led several expeditions to find the Mississippi River. These did not succeed, but La Salle did explore much of the Rio Grande and parts of East Texas. During one of his absences in 1686, the colony's last ship was wrecked, leaving the colonists unable to obtain resources from the French colonies of the Caribbean.
The French colonial empire in the New World also included New France (Nouvelle France) in North America, particularly in what is today the province of Quebec, Canada, and for a very short period (12 years) also Antarctic France (France Antarctique, in French), in present-day Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. All of these settlements were in violation of ...
Elizabeth Beers-Curtis, by marriage (Second French Empire) Grace Curzon, Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston, by marriage (United Kingdom) Henry Hathaway, by birth as Henri Léopold, Marquis de Fiennes (Kingdom of Belgium) Francis Augustus MacNutt, ennobled (Holy See) Medora de Vallombrosa, Marquise de Morès, by marriage (Kingdom of Sardinia)
This led to the breakdown of relations between France and Spain and St. Denis left the Spanish America and returned to La Louisiane. In February 1719 the French transferred St. Denis to Mexico City. However, his stay in New Spain would have favoured his capture and sending to a Spanish prison, so he decided to flee and emigrate to Natchitoches.
Sources differ about the actual number of French families of noble origin, but agree that it was proportionally among the smallest noble classes in Europe. For the year 1789, French historian François Bluche gives a figure of 140,000 nobles (9,000 noble families) and states that about 5% of nobles could claim descent from feudal nobility ...
Texas exported cotton, which by the 19th century was fast becoming a vital commodity in Europe and an increasing cause of tension between France and the UK, and other raw materials to France, while France exported iron, machinery and finished goods to Texas. [2] Both the French and Texian navies patrolled the Gulf of Mexico, although, while the ...
As a result of the French Revolution, French migration to the Canadas was decelerated significantly during, and after the French Revolution; with only a small number of nobles, artisans and professionals, and religious emigres from France permitted to settle in the Canadas during that period. [8]
François-Louis Teissèdre de Fleury was born in Saint-Hippolyte-du-Fort, in Languedoc, France on August 28, 1749 to François Teisseydre de Fleury, Lord of Fleury, Cosseigneur of the town of St. Hipolitte and Marguerite Domadieu ; was trained as an engineer; Educated in École royale du génie de Mézières (Royal Engineering School of Mézières ) and served in the French Army during the ...