An embassy is technically owned by the country. So a US embassy will be owned by the US and not India
The first major US expansion came in 1803. The Louisiana Territory owned by France, was offered for sale to the US under President Jefferson. It was a huge territory that almost doubled the US's territory. Along with the vast lands, was the important city of New Orleans.
Alaska was first owned by the Russians, but they were afraid of war so they sold it to the United States.
Wake Island is a US territory, I think.
It was owned by the Indians, but controlled by the Spaniards.
No, the island of Bora Bora is a territory owned by the French. It operates as its own independent state and is a territory of the French.
Tonga is its own country not owned by the U.S.A.
The Wyoming Territory
Childeric I or Clovis I. Childeric can be considered the first king, but Clovis conquered much of the territory owned by the Merovingians.
A case can be made as early as 1848, when a peace treaty with Mexico was signed giving the US huge pieces of territory claimed to be owned by Mexico. In this situation, both countries can be said to have had imperial ambitions. The territory claimed by Mexico was the land the Spanish previously "stole" from Native Americans.
I'm pretty sure the French owned the territory around Hudson Bay in 1763.
Yes, because a state is something owned and territory is land owned by an animal