Sentence examples for French settlements from inspiring English sources

French settlements were soon established at Fort Maurepas, Mobile, Biloxi, Fort Rosalie, and New Orleans.

French settlements on the Gulf Coast continued to grow, with the settlement of New Orleans in 1718, and other attempts, ultimately unsuccessful, to expand into Spanish-controlled Texas and Florida.

The English conquest of India lessened the commercial activity of the French settlements.

In Quebec the loyalists simply crossed the new frontier and settled along the St. Lawrence River to the west of the old French settlements.

Many native individuals became fur trappers, trade middlemen, or guides, while others, particularly women, focused on providing food to the French settlements.

The council of the Virginia Company then commissioned him to destroy all French settlements south of the 46th parallel, including Port Royal (now Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia), which he captured in 1614.

On venturing farther northward along the coast, Argall discovered a new French settlement at St . Sauveur

The original French settlement, founded in 1619, was called Nepisiguit and then St. Peters.

French explorers called it Île du Castor (for the castors [beavers] found there), and a French settlement (abandoned 1603) was one of the earliest in the area.

In a few areas of old French settlement (as in the Windsor area), the long, narrow fields typical of French Canadian strip farming may be seen.

Concerts and other entertainment, culminating on Aug. 15, the 400th anniversary of the first permanent French settlement in North America, with Tintimarre and its costumed revelers.