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first Acadians - Acadian-Cajun Genealogy & History  Charles Philippe Aubry, took charge until Spain sent someone. ... The French government wouldn't redeem it at face value. ... The first Acadians to arrive in the Louisiana territory consisted of 21 people in 4 families who came from .... When the Acadians got to Dauterive's land, located on the east back of Bayou Teche at...
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WI: Frances Settles the Louisiana Territory | Alternate History ...  Nov 2, 2015 ... One, contrary to popular belief, the transfer was not a secret treaty that ... Why is anyone's guess. ... So, if Spain, as OTL joins, how does France get it's ally to give up so ... simply wasn't into developing a settler colony in the 1700's/1800's ... development wouldn't be startling, but it would be more than OTL.
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Louisiana (New Spain) - Wikipedia  1800  In the Third Treaty of San Ildefonso, Napoleon secretly acquired the territory, but Spain continued to administer it.
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Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana Territory - White House ...  After all, Spain, now a weak power in Europe, held the Louisiana Territory. ... First was the revelation that in late 1800 Napoleon Bonaparte had secretly negotiated a treaty transferring ... Perhaps the French could hold the island, but at a huge cost. .... Back in Washington, until Lewis got beyond the lines of communications,...
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Treaty of San Ildefonso 1800 - The Napoleon Series  "Let the Court of Madrid cede these districts to France," Talleyrand had written ... Spain was compensated by the creation in Tuscany of the kingdom of Etruria, which ... Although Napoleon Bonaparte agreed never to transfer Louisiana to a third ... of Spain its desire to be again placed in possession of the colony of Louisiana;...
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Peace of the Pyrenees | France-Spain [1659] | Britannica.com  (Nov. 7, 1659), peace treaty between Louis XIV of France and Philip IV of Spain that ended the Franco-Spanish War of 164859. It is often taken to mark the...
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Transfer of sovereignty over Macau - Wikipedia  The transfer of sovereignty of Macau from the Portuguese Republic to the People's Republic of ... Sino-Portuguese Lisbon Agreement, which was signed in 1887 ... These treaties stated that, "Agreed by China, Portugal will remain in Macau and ... the People's Republic of China recognised Macau as the territory of China,...
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Reconquest of Spain - Jan 02, 1492 - HISTORY.com  On this day in History, Reconquest of Spain on Jan 02, 1492. ... forces of King Ferdinand V and Queen Isabella I, and the Moors lose their last foothold in Spain.
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The Rock of remain: why Gibraltar is rejecting Brexit | Politics | The ...  Jun 16, 2016 ... Spain, which has wanted the territory back under its control pretty much since ... of his desire to see Gibraltar back under Spanish rule, said that if Britain left the EU, ... According to the experts the world would end if Britain votes out. ... It will exist no more but float off into obscurity and crash like China, Japan,...
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Treaty of Paris (1763) - Wikipedia  The Treaty of Paris, also known as the Treaty of 1763, was signed on 10 February 1763 by the ... France ceded all of its territory in mainland North America, but retained fishing ... Louisiana, which was to be part of the British territory of West Florida). .... Under the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 they had forced France to concede...
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Introduction - The World of 1898: The Spanish-American War ...  As a result Spain lost its control over the remains of its overseas empire -- Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines Islands, Guam, and other islands. ... By 1825 much of this empire had fallen into other hands and in that year, ... Two days later Commodore George Dewey sailed from Hong Kong with Emilio Aguinaldo on board.
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Treaty of the Pyrenees - Wikipedia  The Treaty of the Pyrenees was signed on 7 November 1659 to end the 1635-1659 war between France and Spain, a war that was initially a part of the wider...
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The Western Sahara Conflict |  Though Spain's colonial domination lasted until 1976 (Zoubir, 1998), [t]he ... on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, also known as ... Morocco's claims to the territory of Spanish Sahara extend as far back as to the ... on which Spain was to cede control of its territory to Morocco and Mauritania,...
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Why We'd Be Better Off if Napoleon Never Lost at Waterloo | History ...  "Come general, the affair is over, we have lost the day," Napoleon told one of his officers. ... from the rest of the French Army, one unheard on any European battlefield in the .... The Austrians declared war on France once more in 1809, but were ..... The Spanish Empire in, say, late-18th century Argentina was not the same...
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Louisiana Purchase - Wikipedia  The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition of the Louisiana territory (828,000 square miles) ... Napoleon Bonaparte had gained Louisiana for French ownership from Spain .... failed to re-enslave the emancipated population of Haiti, he abandoned his .... Countries change their borders in two ways: (1) conquest, or (2) an...
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Disputed status of Gibraltar - Wikipedia  Gibraltar, a British Overseas Territory, near the southernmost tip of the Iberian Peninsula, is the subject of a disputed irredentist claim by Spain. It was captured in 1704 during the War of the Spanish Succession (17011714). The Spanish Crown formally ceded the territory in perpetuity to the British .... The first formal proposal on how to achieve the return of Gibraltar to Spain...
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Franco-Spanish War (163559) - Wikipedia  The Franco-Spanish War (16351659) was a military conflict that was the result of French ... The Franco-Spanish War ended in 1659 with the Treaty of the Pyrenees. ... In the Peace of Westphalia, France gained territory in the Alsace, thus interrupting ... and thus the Fronde prepared the way for the absolutism of Louis XIV.
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The Revolution and the Louisiana Purchase - TLP  Apr 20, 2009 ... Originally a French colony, France had won Louisiana back from Spain thanks to ... Moreover, thousands of French Canadians would have been happy to drift South ... his troops might well have gotten additional orders to head to New Orleans, but ... Map of the United States prior to the Louisiana Purchase.
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Treaty of Paris | 1898 | Britannica.com  Treaty of Paris, (1898), treaty concluding the Spanish-American War. ... As indemnity, Spain ceded Puerto Rico and Guam (in the Marianas) to the United States. ... of Paris (December 10, 1898), U.S. forces continued to occupy the country, and...
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The Mexican Heritage in the American Southwest - The Future of ...  Jan 1, 1999 ... Before Mexico won its independence from Spain in 1821, the Spanish .... In February 1846, the independent nation of Texas was annexed as a state in .... In 1867, Mexican forces had defeated the French occupation army and...
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Louisiana Purchase - Wikipedia  The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition of the Louisiana territory (828,000 square miles) ... The Louisiana territory included land from fifteen present U.S. states and two ... Before 1803, Louisiana had been under Spanish control for forty years. ... While the transfer of the territory by Spain back to France in 1800 went...