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France, about to lose the French and Indian War in Canada, ceded its southern claims (Louisiana) to its Seven Years War ally Spain under the secret Treaty of Fontainebleau (1762). This meant that Britain only received the smaller part of Louisiana, east of the Mississippi, in the Treaty of Paris (1763). Spain controlled Louisiana, the Gulf of Mexico coast, and the lower Mississippi Valley during the Revolutionary War (1776-1783), after which Britain still controlled Canada, but none of Louisiana. Under another secret treaty, the Third Treaty of San Ildefonso (1800), Spain returned Louisiana to Napoleon, who sold all of the territory to the US in 1803.
The Louisiana territory was controlled by France from 1699 to 1762. France handed over the territory to Spain in 1762 and then again reacquired the territory in 1800. During their reign Spain had denied Americans access to New Orleans. Spain did not like American influence to increase in the territory. France at the time of reacquiring the territory had assured Spain that the territory would not be handed over to third party. Spain protested against Louisiana purchase which double the size of United States. Spain and USA later got into a dispute over the boundaries of the territory.
Under the Treaty of Paris (1763), France ceded Canada to Great Britain and gave up their claims in the Ohio River valley. This led to an expansion of the British American colonists into the interior, in spite of the Royal Proclamation of 1763 that tried to dissuade them. The Mississippi River became the dividing line for the Louisiana territory (New France), with each side given free access. Louisiana had already been ceded to Spain in 1762, although France later secretly arranged to regain it.
In 1762 ceded what came to be called the Louisiana Territory to Spain in return for their help during the French and Indian wars. In 1800 my sources tell me that Spain gave or sold the territory back to France. In turn France sold it to the U.S. in 1803. I do not know how or why the transfer in 1800 was done. In writing a small history project, I would like to find how that transfer was made, and why. Any help? Dolores Dambach songbird71@toast.net France got control of the Louisiana Territory with the signing of the Third Treaty of San Ildefonso in 1800. - G Oakley
Britain and Spain. As a result of the war, France lost Canada to the British in 1763. In 1762, before the end of the Seven Years War, France ceded Louisiana to Spain, which also had colonies in Florida and greater Mexico. *France did retain its remaining West Indies island colonies, as well as the largely uninhabited islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon near Newfoundland (controlled by Britain under the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht, but returned to France in 1763). Spain secretly returned Louisiana to France in 1800.
Robert Cavelier, and Sieur de la Salle, claimed Oklahoma as part of French Louisiana in 1682. In 1541, Francisco Vasquez Coronado crossed western Oklahoma in search for gold. The year of 1762, France gave Louisiana, including the Oklahoma region, to Spain. France would regain Louisiana, in 1800. The Louisiana Purchase, is when the United States bought the Oklahoma region, except the Panhandle, as part of the Louisiana Purchase from France. In 1819, the Oklahoma region, except the Panhandle, became part of the territory of Arkansas.
France Not France. During the time period when the United States signed the Constitution, Spain owned the Louisiana Territory. France later gained the territory shortly before President Thomas Jefferson made the decision to buy it.
Under the Treaty of Paris (1763), France ceded Canada to Great Britain and gave up their claims in the Ohio River valley. This led to an expansion of the British American colonists into the interior, in spite of the Royal Proclamation of 1763 that tried to dissuade them. The Mississippi River became the dividing line for the Louisiana territory (New France), with each side given free access. Louisiana had already been ceded to Spain in 1762, although France later secretly arranged to regain it.
The Treaty of Fontainebleau - Nov. 3, 1762
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England and Spain went to war because they both wanted to change religon. Spain wanted England to be Catholic but England wanted Spain to be proestant.