The French colony of Hispaniola was called Saint Domingue. This colony had been in existence on the Caribbean island from 1659 to 1809.
A French colony was located on the island of Hispaniola, called Saint Domingue which is now called Haiti.
The French found Prince Edward Island before the British. Île Saint-Jean, as the French called it, was made part of the French colony of Acadia. It was an area of contention between the French and British until the Treaty of Paris gave control to the British in 1763. The British built a new colony on the island, initially calling it St. John's Island. The name was changed to Prince Edward Island in 1798.
Dakar to their colony of Senegal, Tunisia, next door to their colony in Algeria and Madagascar they established a little colony on the northern tip of the island.
Madagascar is a very big island in the Indian Ocean. It was once a French colony. The island of La Réunion, and the island of Mayotte, are the nearest parts of French territory.
Jean Lafitte was the French-American pirate/privateer who used Galveston Island as his base. He occupied the island from early 1815 to 1821, setting up the "colony" of Campeche.
Yes the Rhode Island colony is a charter colony.
The Roanoke Island Colony was founded in 1585.
Devil's Island, off the coast of French Guiana, was once the site of an infamous penal colony.
The problems it faced was going through the revolutionary war and the french and indian war.
Colony of Vancouver Island ended in 1866.
Colony of Vancouver Island was created in 1849.