Sentence examples for french settlements from inspiring English sources

A map of the British and French settlements in North America / J. Lodge, delin. et sculp.

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

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

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.

He was particularly successful in sketching life in the French settlements of the Illinois country and in interpreting such authentic figures as the backwoodsman, voyageur, and Indian hater.

Lime green bayous follow historical French settlement patterns along the Gulf Coast and up Louisiana streams.

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 settlement at Port Royal, Nova Scotia, from a map by Marc Lescarbot, 1609.

St. Croix Island was the site of a temporary French settlement in 1604 that was headed by explorer Samuel de Champlain.