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The French forts in Canada were located from the Atlantic Ocean to as far west as the confluence of the North and South Saskatchewan rivers, and as far north as James Bay. Built between the 1640s and the 1750s, a few were captured from rival British fur trading companies like Hudson's Bay Company .
Dauphin Island (The island was originally named "Ile Dauphine" after Marie Adélaïde of Savoy, the Dauphine (crown princess) of France in 1711). [5] DeArmanville [4] Decatur (named for Stephen Decatur, U.S. navy officer of French descent) [6] Decatur County (named for Stephen Decatur, U.S. navy officer of French descent) [6]
Elements of a 12th-century cloister from Saint-Génis-des-Fontaines Abbey, a Romanesque portal, and a 15th-century chapel in the Philadelphia Museum of Art [5] Part of a Romanesque cloister in the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio [6] Chapel of St Martin de Sayssuel, (St. Joan of Arc Chapel), Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin [7]
Colonial French forts of New France — within the present day United States. Built in New France , including within the domaine of Colonial Louisiana in the Mississippi Basin . Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap
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Fort Caroline was an attempted French colonial settlement in Florida, located on the banks of the St. Johns River in present-day Duval County.It was established under the leadership of René Goulaine de Laudonnière on 22 June 1564, following King Charles IX's enlisting of Jean Ribault and his Huguenot settlers to stake a claim in French Florida ahead of Spain.
Times Square is the most visited public (not privately owned) tourist site in the United States, with about 50 million visitors annually.. This is a list of the most popular individual tourist attractions in the United States, lists of tourist attractions organized by subject region, and a selection of other notable tourist attractions and destinations.
Currently, the style is most widely known as Second Empire, [1] Second Empire Baroque, [2] or French Baroque Revival; [3] Leland M. Roth refers to it as "Second Empire Baroque." [4] Mullett-Smith terms it the "Second Empire or General Grant style" due to its popularity in designing government buildings during the Grant administration. [5]