My house sits on one of the oldest French home settlements on the Gulf Coast. The old place where my house sits was built around 1712 by an admiral that sailed on d'Iberville's second voyage to the Gulf Coast in 1700. I have just started metal detecting around the house and have found some cool artifacts including french handmade bricks from the big house that was destroyed by a hurricane in 1726. Lots of large iron plates and long nails. I am planning to rent a ground penetrating sonar machine in the winter when the mosquitos are gone to map out what else is around. The house across the street from me was built in the mid 1700's and the graveyard beside my house has a lot of graves in French from the 1700's and early 1800's. Love this history!

I love these videos... they turn an ordinary laundry day or long drive into an immensely informative adventure... thank you for making these videos!

Such an underrated channel, ive watched pretty much every video by now about the prehistoric and colonial times in the Americas and have enjoyed every single one of them. Wish there would be more episodes, a big thumbs up for your work!

After studying all different realms of history through high school, college, and free time, my favorite arena by far is the colonial era, with New France undoubtedly taking the cake. Especially living in the Illinois-Wisconsin area all my life, it’s so fascinating being able to attach this incredible, frontiersman, unique piece of history to actual places that I’ve been in and lived near. I’ve always been incredibly interested by the couriers du bois, the fur traders, and the whole French diplomatic approach to interacting with and trading with Indians. It’s incredible to try and imagine Louis Jolliet or Jean Nicolet traveling down my region’s rivers in a canoe with a band of Frenchmen and Indians, being the first Europeans to ever lay eyes on this land. Great stuff, great video.

To underline what you mention about french military tradition around the 8:00 mark, it's worth noticing that almost the entire military vocabulary is french in origin. Ranks: caporal, sergeant, leutenant, capitaine, major, colonel, général, marechal are all french. Different types of troops: cavallerie, infanterie, artillerie, all french. Troop contingents: peloton, compagnie, bataillon, division, armée, all french. I could go on, but you get the general idea as to how infuential France has been in the entire field of western military organisation.

I love that the speaker uses language everyone can understand. I found this fascinating! Thank you!

These videos are so freaking brilliant - you cover everything in a detailed and entertaining way. Great job

Are you a teacher or something? Just found your channel about to watch all of these haha

That context you gave about france in the beginning is amazing, im very ignorant on a lot of european history so its fun to learn

This amazing channel should be bigger than 1700 subscribers.

Every time this guy describes American perception of French 🤣

Fantastic channel.

Again great video.

Awesome channel

St. Louis WAS named after a Saint who also happened to be a king! Louis IX, also called Saint Louis, (born April 25, 1214, Poissy, France-died August 25, 1270 …; canonized August 11, 1297 ..king of France from 1226 to 1270, the most popular of the Capetian monarchs.

1:02 French Perception in America. *What France is like in the 1500s* 2:06 1500s France is somewhat unified. 4:25 French Wars of Religion. 5:28 France remains Catholic, although they are tolerant of Protestants with the Edict of Nantes on April 13, 1598 7:29 France militarizes with a tough, well trained army. 8:23 Italy's Renaissance. 10:22 Biggest Army, Best Trained Army. Absolute Monarch. *France's Exploration of The New World/The North American Continent* 13:11 French Fishing, French Piracy in Florida, French Fur Trading in Canada. 14:07 1534 Jacques Cartier heads down The St. Lawrence River. 15:15 Beaver Fur. 18:00 Tons of people like Beaver Fur clothing. 21:32 Competition cuts into French Beaver Fur Trade Advantage. 23:07 1608 Samuel De Champlain establishes Quebec Settlement. 27:17 Beavers Went EXTINCT! 28:47 1642 Montreal is established as a French Settlement [under the direction of Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuveand Jeanne Mance.] 31:18 Some French Fur Traders "Go Native" and live with the Native Americans, some to gain greater profits. 32:23 The French leave a couple hundred people at the outposts, they are not growing much in terms of farming output. It's mostly trading with Native Americans. 36:36 Alcohol Devastates Communities! 37:18 French Trade FIREARMS for BEAVER FUR 41:00 French Missionaries aren't able to convert Native Americans when Frenchmen are "going native." 45:00 Robert La Salle Explores The Mississippi River. 51:00 Louisiana. 55:20 La Salle SETTLED IN THE WRONG PLACE. 58:00 Louisiana 1:01:12 The French Import African Slaves to work the Louisiana agriculture 1:09:20 Spain settles San Antonio. 1:10:04 England Establishes Georgia in 1732 to defend The Colonies from Spain. 1:12:01 The Indians play The French and English feud to the American Indians advantage. 1:14:16 The Cherokee convert the Cherokee spoken language into a Cherokee written language. 1:14:58 Seven Years War 1756-1763

Really enjoy your videos. Just found them last night. What’s your name? Have you written books?

I think, the event in France, you're referring to is called St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.

Great comprehensive. Easy to get one’s mind around. But I think St. Louis,MO was not named after a French King named Louis. I believe it was named after the Catholic saint, St. Louis.

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What about the more French natives that were already there?

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Ur supposed to say spoiler alert before the spoiler

Come on man you guys have taken everyone's life the cryptic underground in Paris is like boo!! you'd think the bones would turn to antiques we have Marie Antoinette going for million do I hear 2?

Why do you not represent the truth about the catholic butchery that took place in the painting???? You do a great disservice to the truth!!

You are Scottish and the way Edinburgh is so quiet says something about the atmosphere, is it the Grendel? Quiet has that library feel so the concentration is key to your mental health and the art you all had stopped making was cause your first paintings may have been laughed at and you took the Vatican to have It all to yourself make your own paintings and had been vain that you all began chopping heads off the Nazi was afraid of Hyndrek excuse my spelling but they must've had him killed once he began showing his murderous ability shooting Jews in the head without a problem going one at a time head shot that got blood on Gobbles face he was sickened.