The oldest city is Mobile, founded by French colonists.

In 1885, to get rid of habitual criminals and to increase the number of colonists, the French Parliament passed a law that anyone, male or female, who had more than three sentences for theft of more than three months each, would be sent to French Guiana as a " relégué.

French colonists drove most of the Caribs off the island and established plantations on the island, eventually importing African slaves to work on sugar plantations.

This class occupied a middle status between African slaves and French colonists.

With a large expedition that eventually included 40 000 European troops, and receiving help from white colonists and mulatto forces commanded by Alexandre Pétion, a former lieutenant of Rigaud, the French won several victories after severe fighting.

Most of the remaining French colonists fled ahead of the defeated French army, many migrating to Louisiana or Cuba.

Rising unrest in Saint-Domingue from African slaves, who greatly outnumbered French colonists, convinced Jean Audubon to return to France, where he became a member of the Republican Guard.

It was originally claimed by Spain, but also claimed by the French, who established most of the colonists as part of New France.

French colonists adapted a form of the Illinois language-name for the people: Wimihsoorita.

German, French, Flemish, Danish, Dutch, and Norwegian colonists entered the area shortly afterward.

In 1605, French colonists established the first permanent European settlement in Canada and the first north of Florida at Port Royal, founding what would become known as Acadia.

As the colony increased in size, with the arrival of French Huguenots and German citizens, some of the colonists were set free to pursue commercial farming, leading to the dominance of agriculture in the economy.

Trinidad remained in Spanish hands until 1797, but it was largely settled by French colonists.

In 1878 Britain and France declared all of the New Hebrides to be neutral territory, but the lack of a functional government led to rising discontent among British and French colonists.

* July 11 – French soldiers arrive in Newport, Rhode Island to reinforce colonists in the American Revolutionary War.

This is also the effective beginning of King William's War, the first of four North American Wars until 1763 between English and French colonists, both sides allied to Native American tribes.

The French Mardi Gras customs had accompanied the colonists who settled there.

The name refers to the two main enemies of the British colonists: the royal French forces and the various Native American forces allied with them.

As there had already been a King George's War in the 1740s, British colonists named the second war in King George's reign after their opponents, and it became known as the French and Indian War.

William Shirley, the expansionist governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, was particularly forceful, stating that British colonists would not be safe as long as the French were present.

The name mahogany was initially associated only with those islands in the West Indies under British control ( French colonists used the term acajou, while in the Spanish territories it was called caoba ).

Other possible influences on modern stripping were the dances of the Ghawazee " discovered " and seized upon by French colonists in 19th century North Africa and Egypt.

Mauritian society includes people from many different ethnic and religious groups: Hindu, Muslim and Indo-Mauritians, Mauritian Creoles ( of African and Malagasy descent ), Buddhist and Roman Catholic Sino-Mauritians and Franco-Mauritians ( descendants of the original French colonists ).

Category: French explorers

Category: French explorers

French explorers penetrated Gabon's dense jungles between 1862 and 1887.

* 1673 – French explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet reach the Mississippi River and become the first Europeans to make a detailed account of its course.

Lake Erie was the last of the Great Lakes to be explored by Europeans, since the Iroquois who occupied the Niagara River area were in conflict with the French, and they did not allow explorers or traders to pass through.

* A number of accounts by 17th and 18th century French explorers: Jean-Bernard Bossu, François-Marie Perrin du Lac, Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix, Dumont ( as published by Fr.

The lake was known to French explorers as Lac des Prairies.

While the early French explorers that encountered the sites made no use of the metals due to the difficulties in transporting it, the copper was eventually traded throughout the continent along major river routes.

His discovery inspired other French, Russian, Japanese, and Chinese treasure hunters and explorers who also took their toll on the collection.

Intimate relations among Native American and Europeans were widespread, beginning with the French and Spanish explorers and trappers.

* Julian Stockwin's nautical fiction series, the The Kydd Series, includes the book Command ( 2006 ) in which Thomas Kydd takes a ship to Van Diemen's Land, at the behest of then governor of New South Wales, Philip Gidley King, for the purpose of preventing French explorers from establishing a French settlement on the island.

* June 17 – French explorers Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet reach the headwaters of the Mississippi River and descend to Arkansas.

Category: French explorers

French explorers, missionaries, trading companies, and soldiers gradually extended the area under French control inland from the lagoon region.

European exploration came later, beginning in the 16th century with Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto and French explorers led by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle.

* Thomas Aubert ( Born 1500's ), navigator and one of the first French explorers of the New World

The name of the lake is derived from early French explorers who named it for the Huron people inhabiting the region.

The French first came to the New World as explorers, seeking a route to the Pacific ocean and wealth.

" French explorers had noted ... existence the area as early as the seventeenth century, in 1772 Alexander Henry had prospected for copper on the Ontonagon River near Victoria.

The total population of the Sioux ( Lakota, Santee, Yankton, and Yanktonai ) was estimated at 28, 000 by French explorers in 1660.

French Canadian explorers founded Mobile as the first capital of Louisiana in 1702, and took advantage of the war to build Fort Toulouse at the confluence of the Tallapoosa and Coosa in 1717, trading with the Alabama and Coushatta.

Fort CarolineEuropean explorers first arrived in the area 1562, when French Huguenot explorer Jean Ribault charted the St. Johns River.