This New England ... not one of the 13 colonies, is named because, after seeing the Green Mountains, Samuel de Champlain referred to it as "Verd Mont" (green mountains) on a map in his native ...

Events in Tunis and the Congo are calling attention to the French colonies. It has been the object of all Governments to increase the territorial possessions of France; and the colonies ...

The picture that arises from this assessment is that France’s relationship with its 20 former colonies is an ambivalent one. Among them are Algeria, Chad, the Central African Republic ...