. Territorial and commercial expansion of the United States, 1800-1900. n the year following, being appointed governor, sent his chief engineers with a force of 80 convicts lately arrived fromthe prisons of France to clear the land and trace out the plan of a town, which he named Nouveau Orleans in honor of Orleans, thenduke of France. From that time until 1722 it was maintained only as a small military trading post, but in August, 1733, it was madethe official quarters of the governor of the colony. BOUNDARY BETWEEN THE ENGLISH AND FRENCH FIXED AT THE MISSISSIPPI. The seven years war in which
. Territorial and commercial expansion of the United States, 1800-1900. n the year following, being appointed governor, sent his chief engineers with a force of 80 convicts lately arrived fromthe prisons of France to clear the land and trace out the plan of a town, which he named Nouveau Orleans in honor of Orleans, thenduke of France. From that time until 1722 it was maintained only as a small military trading post, but in August, 1733, it was madethe official quarters of the governor of the colony. BOUNDARY BETWEEN THE ENGLISH AND FRENCH FIXED AT THE MISSISSIPPI. The seven years war in which France and < ireat Britain contended for the final possession of this continent terminated with thedefinitive treaty of Paris signed in 1763, which fixed the western boundary of the British possessions along the middle of the MississippiRiver from its source down to the Iberville, and thence down the center of that river or bayou and through Lakes Maurepas andPontchartrain to the Mexican Gulf. 1902.] TERRITORIAL AND COMMERCIAL EXPANSION OP THE UNITED STATES. °G5. No. 1.—1776. Area of the Thirteen Colonies at Date of
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