They threatened constantly to give the British a hold on this region, from whence they could move easily down the rivers to the French settlements near the Gulf.

The French quickly defeated the Scottish at Baleine and established the first permanent settlements on Île Royale: present day Englishtown ( 1629 ) and St. Peter's ( 1630 ).

In 1715 the French established their first permanent settlements in Dominica following a revolt of " poor white " smallholders in the north of Martinique, known as La Gaoulé, which caused an exodus of them to southern Dominica.

The early 17th century saw the first successful French settlements in the New World with the voyages of Samuel de Champlain.

Later, the English and the French established settlements in India and established a trade with China and their own acquisitions would gradually surpass those of the Dutch.

However, a rudimentary network begun under French colonial rule and continued from the 1950s has provided an important means of increased intervillage communication, movement of market goods, and a focus for new settlements.

The overwhelming French troops attacked the English settlements and gained control of the whole island from 1665 – 1667.

During the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, the islands passed from Spanish, to French, to British control, but none of the three powers ever established any settlements.

Category: French mission settlements in North America

In the far north, the English on several occasions sent fleets to raid French settlements and destroy fishing stages on Newfoundland, but suffered the loss of St. John's in 1708 / 9 after the French made an overland march from Plaisance.

Pitt had been lobbied by an American merchant Thomas Cumming to launch an expedition against the French trading settlements in West Africa.

French forces in the Ohio valley also continued to intrigue with Indians throughout the area, encouraging them to raid frontier settlements.

The early colonisation was precarious: in 1656 Carib Indians invaded and destroyed the settlements, and in 1666 the island was captured by French forces.

Charles Vane attacked several small settlements in the Bahamas, but after he refused to attack a stronger French frigate, he was deposed for cowardice and replaced as captain by " Calico Jack " Rackham.

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The French, who had colonized the Saint Lawrence River valley to the north, and the English, who had taken over the Dutch settlements that became the Province of New York to the south, began contesting the area as early as 1691, when Pieter Schuyler built a small wooden fort at the Ticonderoga point on the western shore of the lake.

This trade led the Khasso into increasing contact with the European settlements of Africa's west coast, particularly the French.

In the ensuing two-hundred years, the English and French tried ( and failed ) to establish settlements on the island.

Early settlements by the Spanish and French were succeeded by the English, who formed a colony in 1666.

As they colonized the New World, the French established forts and settlements that would become such cities as Quebec and Montreal in Canada ; Detroit, Green Bay, St. Louis, Mobile, Biloxi, Baton Rouge and New Orleans in the United States ; and Port-au-Prince and Cap-Haïtien in Haiti.

French Guiana was first settled by the French in 1604, although its earliest settlements were abandoned in the face of American Indian hostility and tropical diseases.

It was later used as a depot for convicts on their way to the penal settlements of New Caledonia and French Guiana.

On December 14, 1818, the French privateer Hipólito Bouchard, sailing under the flag of the " United Provinces of Rio de la Plata " ( Argentina ), brought his ships La Argentina and Santa Rosa to within sight of the Mission ; aware that Bouchard ( today known as " California's only pirate ") had recently conducted raids on the settlements at Monterey and Santa Barbara, Comandante Ruíz had sent forth a party of thirty men ( under the leadership of a young Spanish lieutenant named Santiago Argüello ) to protect the Mission at first news of the approach on the 13th.

The term Pays Cathare, French meaning " Cathar Country " is used to highlight the Cathar heritage and history of the region where Catharism was traditionally strongest.

This area is centred around fortresses such as Montségur and Carcassonne ; also the French département of the Aude uses the title Pays Cathare in tourist brochures.

In French ( and France ( Wand )), it is le Pays wallon: The Walloon country included the greatest part of to-day's Belgium, the Province of Flandre orientale, the Province of Flandre occidentale both named Flandre wallonne, the Province of Namur, the Hainaut, the Limbourg, the pays de Liège and even the Luxembourg For Félix Rousseau, Walloon country is, after le Roman pays the old name of the country of the Walloons and the nickname Romande was commonly used to describe Walloons until the late 19th century.

The expression " pays d ' outre-mer " is convenient as it can be understood in French as both " overseas country " and " overseas county / traditional area " ( as evidenced by Pays de la Loire that is a home région, not a home " country ").

Gascony (; ; Gascon: Gasconha ) is now known as the Pays Basque ( the Basque Country ) and is located in the most southwestern region of France, that was part of the " Province of Guyenne and Gascony " prior to the French Revolution.

" The region around Calais, then-known as the Calaisis, was renamed the Pays Reconquis (" Reconquered Country ") in commemoration of its recovery by the French.

The French in the early 18th century called the Thumb of Michigan Le Pays Plat, which means The Country Flat.

In 1950, the French government established the Central Highlands as the Pays Montagnard du Sud ( PMS ) under the authority of Vietnamese Emperor Bảo Đại, whom the French had installed as nominal chief of state in 1949 as an alternative to Ho Chi Minh's North Vietnam.

In 1950, the French government established the Central Highlands as the Pays Montagnard du Sud ( PMS ) under the authority of Vietnamese Emperor Bảo Đại, whom the French had installed as nominal chief of state in 1949 as an alternative to Ho Chi Minh's Democratic Republic of Vietnam.

This contrasts with Wales, which is still " Pays de Galles " in French, with similar terms in other Romance languages.

The region includes three departments, Calvados, Manche and Orne, that cover the part of Normandy traditionally termed " Lower Normandy " lying west of the Dives River, the Pays d ' Auge ( except a small part remaining in Upper Normandy ), a small part of the Pays d ' Ouche ( the main part remaining in Upper Normandy ), the Norman Perche and part of the " French " Perche.

Consequently, the name of the region, chosen by the French central government, was not based on history, but purely on geographical references: Pays ( i. e. " lands ") de la Loire ( i. e. " of the Loire River ").

Combined with widespread concern about British expansion into their territories, this prompted the tribes of the Ohio Country and the formerly French Pays d ' en Haut to rise against the British.

This sector enables travel between the neighboring French region of the Pays de Gex and the airport, avoiding Swiss territory and customs.

During the French revolution Maine became part of the new created départements Mayenne and Sarthe, now they are incorporated together in the Pays de Loire Region.

* Sainte-Apollonie island, Île de Sainte-Apollonie, on the Mayenne river in the French region Pays de la Loire

The modern term outre-mer, spelled with a hyphen and equally meaning " overseas ", is notably used for the overseas departments and territories of France ( In French: Départements d ' outre-mer – Territoires d ' outre-mer or DOM – TOM, collectively Pays et territoires d ' outre-mer ( PTOM )).

French translation by H. Massé: Abrégé du Livre des Pays, Damascus, 1973.

The gavotte ( also gavot or gavote ) originated as a French folk dance, taking its name from the Gavot people of the Pays de Gap region of Dauphiné, where the dance originated.

An early example of speculation over extraterrestrial visitors can be found in the French newspaper Le Pays, which on June 17, 1864, published a story about two American geologists who had allegedly discovered an alien-like creature, a mummified three-foot-tall hairless humanoid with a trunk-like appendage on its forehead, inside a hollow egg-shaped structure.

The term Francien is a linguistic neologism coined in the 19th century to name the hypothetical variant of Old French allegedly spoken by the late 14th century in the ancient province of Pays de France — the then Paris region later called Île-de-France.

The majority of French Viogniers are sold as Vin de Pays in the Languedoc.