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5 days ago · The French Empire stands as one of the most influential colonial powers in history, casting its net across vast oceans and continents. From the 17th century until the mid-20th century, France embarked on an ambitious journey of colonial expansion that affected millions of people globally.
3 days ago · During the 19th and 20th centuries, the French colonial empire was the second largest colonial empire in the world only behind the British Empire; it extended over 13,500,000 km 2 (5,200,000 sq mi) of land at its height in the 1920s and 1930s.
5 days ago · The French Empire’s major territories in Southeast Asia included Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, collectively known as French Indochina. This region became a microcosm of French colonial ambitions and policies.
1 day ago · Having lost its colonial empire, France saw a good opportunity for revenge against Britain in signing an alliance with the Americans in 1778, and sending an army and navy that turned the American Revolution into a world war.
5 days ago · French strategy was initially to open up and develop its western African empire from a base in Senegal on the same Sénégal–Niger river axis along which it had been conquered. As early as 1882 work was begun on a railway to link the heads of navigation of the two rivers at Kayes and at Bamako (which became the capital of the French Sudan).
5 days ago · France’s first colonial empire, essentially located in North America, was a source of great wealth. Even though France lost both Canada and India during the Seven Years’ War (1756–63), the Caribbean sugar islands continued to be the most lucrative source of French colonial activity in the last 100 years of the ancien régime .
5 days ago · Algeria - Colonialism, Resistance, Revolution: The manner in which French rule was established in Algeria during the years 1830–47 laid the groundwork for a pattern of rule that French Algeria would maintain until independence.
