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FRENCH GEOGRAPHIC CONCEPTIONS AND THE 1762 WESTERN LOUISIANA CESSION
2013
Overview
On November 3, 1762, in the waning days of the Seven Years’ War, a beleaguered France ceded the trans-Mississippi remnants of the colony of Louisiana to Spain. This cession has always been something of an enigma; its necessity is not immediately obvious. Spain had not occupied western Louisiana, Britain had not conquered it, and neither was demanding it. Trans-Mississippi Louisiana remained, so far as European diplomacy was concerned, under French dominion, the last piece of a remarkable continental venture.
From 1524 to 1762, French scouts, missionaries, traders, officials, and settlers had tried to explore North America’s territories, harvest its resources,
