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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.
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.
The territories of the 13 colonies were a tiny stip that didn't go beyond the Alleghany mountains, if you know what they are.
The territories of France were extended from the rocky mountains, as the French didn't explore what was beyond until around 1743 when La Vérendrye explored beyond it with is sons. So, French territories went from the Rocky Mountains in the west, thru the Alleghanys in the east, thru The Hudson Bay in the North and the Gulf of Mexico in the South.
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?
Yeah, and did he take possession of the territories in the name of Spain?
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.
Sadly, I think the same can be said of you.
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?
Event if the Puritans didn't settle most of the colonies, they were the most dominant ones, way of thinking, economy, religion, etc, so their philosophy was spreaded everywhere in the US, so this, why religion, even today is so important to the Americans.
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 milita
Ok, it seems that it's always fighting around here. So here I go: