FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
SPANISH COLONIES
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It was the center of French and Native American operations against Spain in the Americas.
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It was a French fort within territory that Spain believed was part of New Spain.
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It was a very effective military outpost for France.
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It was the capital of a new French colony near New Spain.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Louis was a threat to Spain fr what reason? It was a threat because Fort St. Louis was apparently in New Spain land. They (Spain) didn’t want the French to take over.
Detailed explanation-2: -To compensate Spain for joining the war effort and as incentive to accept the peace terms with Great Britain, France’s King Louis XV, offered western Louisiana and New Orleans to Spain’s King Carlos III.
Detailed explanation-3: -Soon after the founding of Fort St. Louis, the Spanish tried to drive the French from Texas. Officials sent six expeditions by land and five by sea. Attempts at locating the settlement in 1686 and 1687 failed, but the Spanish learned much about the geography of southeast Texas.
Detailed explanation-4: -Although New Orleans’ early European residents were French, the architecture of the French Quarter is actually Spanish. To pay a war debt, France gave up control of Louisiana to Spain from 1763 until 1803.