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France regained control of Louisiana through the secret Treaty of San Ildefonso in 1800 but Napoleon Bonaparte I decided to sell the territory to the United States in 1803.
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France and regained
In 1956, after 44 years of occupation Morocco regained independence from France as the Kingdom of Morocco.
At the same time, Aristotelian rhetoric, owing to a revival of Thomistic philosophy initiated by Rome, regained ground in what was left of Catholic education in France, in particular at the prestigious Faculty of Theology of Paris, now a private entity.
In 1944, the Western Allies invaded France, while the Soviet Union regained all of its territorial losses and invaded Germany and its allies.
In the Rhineland France successfully took the Duchy of Lorraine, and in Italy Spain regained control over the kingdoms of Naples and Sicily ( lost in the War of the Spanish Succession ), while territorial gains in northern Italy were limited despite bloody campaigning.
When France regained the ceded departments after World War I, the Territoire de Belfort was not reintegrated into Haut-Rhin.
They regained half of Sint Maarten in 1648, from then on sharing the island with France.
The Netherlands regained independence from France in 1813.
After a stadtholderless era of 22 years, the Orangists regained power, and his first problem was to survive the Franco-Dutch War ( which was related to the Third Anglo-Dutch war ), when France, England, Münster and Cologne united against this country.
In 1205, Philip II Augustus of France regained Touraine.
After the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871, when Alsace-Lorraine was lost to Germany, the Strasbourg statue was covered in black mourning crepe on state occasions, and was often decorated with wreaths ; this practice did not end until France regained the region following World War I.
France was forced to relinquish the Saar province in 1697, but from 1793 to 1815 regained control of the region.
When France regained control of Martinique, Napoléon Bonaparte reinstated slavery.
In addition, while France regained its factories in India, France recognized British clients as the rulers of key Indian native states, and pledged not to send troops to Bengal.
In 1948, the French persuaded Bảo Đại to return as " Chief of State " () of the " State of Vietnam " () set up by France in areas over which it had regained control, while a bloody war with the Viet Minh under Ho Chi Minh continued.
In 1798 the Russian Admiral Ushakov evicted the French from these islands, and though France regained them in 1802, the three départments were not revived.
The title of Reichskommissar was given by Adolf Hitler to a number of Nazi governors, mainly in several occupied countries during World War II, but also before the war to reintegrate former Prussian territory regained on France, as well as various other regions inhabitated by ethnic Germans.
Since then, the top two rankings changed ultimately remaining with the All Blacks since November 2009 when the Boks lost to France on their end-of-year tour and most recently regained second position after defeating Australia in Pretoria.
When it regained its independence, its old authority in France came back to it, the work of the Councils of Saint-Basle and of Chelles was undone ; princes like Hugh Capet, bishops like Gerbert, held no attitude but that of submission.
With the Treaty of Troyes in 1420, Henry V of England temporarily regained all territories formerly held by the Plantagenets, including Normandy, and was made regent and heir of France.
Afterwards he travelled about in more or less distress, but finally was allowed to return to France and regained civic rights ; later he settled at Rome.
He then won and lost, regained and lost again the European Super Middlewight title in bouts in Italy and France.
French revanchism was one of the forces behind the Treaty of Versailles, which regained Alsace-Lorraine for France, pinned the blame of the World War on Germany and extracted huge reparations from the defeated powers.
On his return to France, André Marie quickly regained his place in political life, both at departmental and national levels.
France and control
* 1906 – The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco.
William IV, Count of Nevers had promised the Christian bishops of Bethlehem that if Bethlehem should fall under Muslim control, he would welcome them in the small town of Clamecy in present-day Burgundy, France.
The Ottomans, with whom Bonaparte had hoped to conduct an alliance once his control of Egypt was complete, were encouraged by the Battle of the Nile to go to war with France.
In May 1916 the governments of the United Kingdom, France and Russia agreed the Sykes – Picot Agreement, which defined their proposed spheres of influence and control in Western Asia should the Triple Entente succeed in defeating the Ottoman Empire during World War I.
The Military of the Central African Republic cannot – even with the support of France and the Multinational Force of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa ( FOMUC )– exert control over its own borders.
The new nation was defined as consisting of the entire archipelago, despite the fact that France maintains control over Mayotte.
The system of vassalage was not divided among great local lords in England as it was in France, for by right of the Conquest the king was in control.
After the New England Conquest of Acadia in 1710, mainland Nova Scotia was under the control of New England, but both present-day New Brunswick and virtually all of present-day Maine remained contested territory between New England and New France.
The British returned control of Île-Royale to France with the fortress virtually intact three years later under the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle and the French reestablished their forces there.
France established direct control in 1640, reorganizing it into an official colony and expanding to the north coast of Hispaniola itself, whose western end Spain ceded to France in 1697 under the Treaty of Ryswick.
The D-Day Normandy landings on June 6, 1944 were costly but successful ; a month later the invasion of Southern France took place, and control of the forces which took part in the southern invasion passed from the AFHQ to the SHAEF.
Once the coastal assault had succeeded, Eisenhower insisted on retaining personal control over the land battle strategy, and was immersed in the command and supply of multiple assaults through France on Germany.
* 1994 – Four Armed Islamic Group hijackers seize control of Air France Flight 8969.
At this point, Emperor Menelik turned to France, offering a treaty of alliance ; the French response was to abandon the Emperor to secure Italian approval of the Treaty of Bardo which would secure French control of Tunisia.
Both France and Great Britain were ready to fight for control of the region and both sent troops to North America in 1755 ; war was formally declared in 1756.
French domination was assured by the defeat in 1898 of the armies of Samori Touré, Mansa ( or Emperor ) of the Ouassoulou state and leader of Malinké descent, which gave France control of what today is Guinea and adjacent areas.
Captain Moussa ( Dadis ) Camara told Radio France International on 28 September the shootings by members of his presidential guard were beyond his control.
In France, a resurgence of the guilds in the second half of the 17th century is symptomatic of the monarchy's concerns to impose unity, control production and reap the benefits of transparent structure in the shape of more efficient taxation.
William feared that even English neutrality would not suffice and that control over the Royal Navy was a prerequisite for a successful naval campaign against France.
Kennedy argues that by far the main reason was London's fear that a repeat of 1870 — when Prussia and the German states smashed France — would mean that Germany, with a powerful army and navy, would control the English Channel and northwest France.
King Louis XIV of France eventually " won " the War of Spanish Succession, and control of Spain passed to the Bourbon dynasty.
Deschamps on taking control of the island proclaimed for the King of France, set up French colours, and defeated several English attempts to reclaim the island.
In 1664, the newly established French West India Company took control of the new colony, and France formally claimed control of the western portion of the island of Hispaniola.
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