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France wins suit over history-making shipwreck off US coast (news.yahoo.com)

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[–] RandAlThor@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They did colonize Louisiana.

[–] wildncrazyguy@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

But weirdly enough, the French transferred New Orleans ownership over to Spain so that it wasn’t lost as a spoil of war. The Spanish then governed it for 40 years before it was given back and then promptly sold to the US.