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New France (French: la Nouvelle-France; English: New France), a French colony in North America. Originally included the coastal areas of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Newfoundland, and Acadia (Nova Kotia). Later, it gradually expanded to include most of the Great Lakes region and parts of the area west of the Appalachian Mountains. Eventually, it formed a vast area starting from the Hudson Bay in the north to the Gulf of Mexico in the south, including the St. Lawrence River and the Mississippi River Basin, and was divided into five countries: Canada, Acadia, Hudson Bay, Newfoundland, and Louisiana. Area

North American Colonies 1650-1763

In 1524, the Italian navigator Giovanni de Verrazzano explored the east coast of North America and named the new land Francesca to commemorate King Francois I of France. Most people in France were not initially interested in this place. In 1534, French sailor Jacques Cartier traveled inland from the Gulf of St. Lawrence as far as the Lachine River, and tried to establish a colony near present-day Quebec. Although the colony was not yet established, French merchants quickly realized that the St. Lawrence region had a large number of valuable furs, especially beaver furs, which were very rare in Europe. Eventually, the French decided to colonize Francesca to expand their influence in the Americas. In order to maintain the fur trade, Frenchman Samuel de Champlain arrived in the Gulf of St. Lawrence in 1603 and the Bay of Fundy the next year. He played a certain role in the establishment of France's first North American colony, Port Royal. effect. In 1608 he established the colony of Quebec, a commanding height that controlled the mouth of the St. Lawrence River. He teamed up with the local Algonquian and Montagnais people to fight against the Iroquois Confederacy, which was composed of many Indian nations. He is also preparing to send young Frenchmen to live with the locals and learn their language and customs to help the French adapt to life in North America. These men expanded French influence to the south and west. At that time, the British colonies in the south were very populous and very wealthy. In 1627 Cardinal Richelieu, Louis XIII's chief minister, hoped to make New France as wealthy as the English colonies. He invested in New France, established the New France Company, and appointed Champlain as the governor of New France. Richelieu then banned non-Roman Catholics from living in New France, causing many to live in the British colonies instead. However, as soon as the Anglo-French war began, the company's fleet was captured by the British army, and Quebec itself fell into British hands in 1629, although the British returned Quebec to France according to the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye in 1632. New France (Blue) in its heyday in 1750

In 1663, Louis XIV changed New France into a province directly under the king, and sent a governor to guard it. In 1666, the French army guarding New France defeated the local Iroquois and forced the Iroquois to conclude a peace treaty. From that time on, France began to immigrate to New France on a large scale. In the 1660s, France sent more than 3,000 immigrants to New France. This includes women who have reached marriageable age. In 1671, Simon-Fran?ois Dormont, Lord of Saint-Louson, acquired the entire North American continent for France, which was a territorial expansion of New France. At that time, Britain and France intensified their conflicts over territorial and trade issues on the North American continent. During the War of the League of Augsburg (1689-1697), Sir William Phipps commanded a British fleet to occupy Acadia. In 1690, Phipps attempted to capture Quebec, but was defeated by the French. Afterwards, under the command of Louis de Bide, Count of Frontenac, the French army began a series of border invasions in New England, and finally drove straight into the country of the Iroquois. The Treaty of Rijswijk was signed in 1697, which stipulated that New France would occupy Hudson Bay (excluding Newfoundland) in addition to its original territory. In 1699, Iberville began to develop another colony in New France, Louisiana. In 1700, New France concluded a peace treaty with the Iroquois, ending the war against the Iroquois. New France's good fortune, now at its peak, began to decline. The British were eager to take New France as their own. In 1710, the British army occupied Acadia again, and later acquired Hudson Bay. After the outbreak of the Seven Years' War, the British army captured Louisbourg in 1758, occupied Quebec in 1759, and unconditionally surrendered Montreal in 1760. Then the entire New France laid down its arms. The Treaty of Paris in 1763 ended the war between Britain and France. Except for the fringe area of ??New Orleans, all the land of New France east of the Mississippi River was ceded to Britain. France only retained sovereignty over the two small islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon near Newfoundland and fishing rights in Newfoundland waters. . After the French Revolution broke out, Napoleon was worried that Britain would occupy Louisiana, so he gave 2 million square kilometers of land to the United States (Louisiana Purchase) at a very low price of 15 million US dollars. At this point, the first French colonial empire fell .