This looks like fun.
PainPleasure wrote:
Good one. I'm sorry, but I'm studying history in University. And for your information, if you don't know history, that's your problem, both of you.
I can only hope I have enough training in American history to match wits.
PainPleasure wrote:
Before 1763, France was in possession of at least half of the North American which is the US nowadays. All the states that are near the Mississippi river were French territories.
France was in possession of much of modern-day Canada and the Mississippi valley region. Saying they controlled half is nuts. The eastern seaboard was populated by the English, the Southwest was littered with Spanish missions and forts, and there is no way the French were ever going to conquer the Indians of the Plains. Save for Louisiana, St. Louis, and Canada, it's difficult to argue that France controlled half of the states.
PainPleasure wrote:
A frenchman sailed from the great lakes to the golf of Mexico during the 1600s and his name was Cavelier de la Salle. And I could go on and on.
And a Spaniard was the first to reach Kansas almost a century before that. So what?
PainPleasure wrote:
So, don't come here giving me lessons about history, especially the one about New France, which is my speciality!!!
But it does seem that you need to do a little more studying.
PainPleasure wrote:
And to you know about the Lousiana purchase in 1803. Most Americans are aware about that sale and most of them also are aware that they're was a french presence in N-A before 1763, which is the Treaty of Paris.
The French lost all their land east of the Mississippi River with the Treaty of 1763, while the Spanish lost Florida. Years later, after the United States had been founded, it bought the Louisiana Purchase from Napolean. As I'm sure you are aware, Napolean had designs on establishing a French empire in North America, but lost too many troops to disease in Haiti that he was forced to sell off the land to fund his European wars.
But that's not the issue.
You said earlier that America was settled by Purtians, which is not the case. Yes, New England had a large Puritan population, but that was it. Explain how many of our Founding Fathers (George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, etc) were from the South and did not have a single Puritan bone in their body?
And you said that it was an ''error in history'' that gave North America to England. Well, since you are a Francophile, I guess you have the right to call a military defeat an ''error.'' France lost the Seven-Years War and was forced to give up their claims. This was the reality of imperlialism in the eighteenth century, not an ''error.''
But I really doubt you have the patience to read all of that. You seem more content in trashing the US more than making an effort to study history.
PainPleasure wrote:
So go surf on the internet, read books and after maybe, and I say maybe, you can give me lessons.
I can guarantee you that I have read more history books than you have, and have studied this a longer time than you. I welcome intelligent discussion on this, but so far, you haven't provided any.
