John Ferling’s “Shots Heard Round the World” explores how France and Spain came to help the colonies throw off England’s rule ...

Lavoisier had assumed control of France’s national gunpowder production. Considered the founder of the Chemical Revolution, ...

In the centre, was the large, bickering United Province of Canada - composed of the French-Catholic ... its colonies. The costs, especially of defending British North America, were burdens that ...

The region the name was appended to was, instead, generally recognized within Europe as Acadia, part of the French empire ... plan to reform the North American colonies. As a “model colony ...

At the time, the ideals of justice and freedom, which spread during the French Revolution and the American Revolution, were also fermenting in the six colonies of British North America ...

In Chad the black governor, Felix Eboue, originally from French Guyana in South America ... the allies regained control of North Africa, the West African colonies abandoned their Vichy loyalties ...

In Chad the black governor, Felix Eboue, originally from French Guyana in South America ... the allies regained control of North Africa, the West African colonies abandoned their Vichy loyalties ...