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North France: Toussaint ngedsides and supported France; after a iod of civil war he seized power in 1801 I ruled Haiti as its self-proclaimed 'ernor. In 1802 France's new ruler, poleon Bonaparte, regained control of iti and reimposed slavery. Toussaint was en to France where he died in captivity. 1804 the Haitians finally made them-fes independent.
In 1763 France ceded to Spain a huge tract of territory in the heart of north france America, lying between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains. It was known as Louisiana. But in 1800 the French, then in a strong position, forced Spain to return Louisiana to them.They spread the Gallic tapestry through the heartland of Europe, for France, alone of countries, stretches from the Channel and the north france Sea to the warm "Middle Sea." Say a few names to yourself, not the clumsy-sounding departe-ments of modern France but the old provinces of tradition: lie de France, where four rivers almost succeed in making this region around Paris an actual island; Normandy, for the strength of William the Conqueror, enduring and rich despite its terrible ordeal of 1944, when the Allies had to smash its Nazi-built bastions and some of its towns;
By this time, the so-called vikings or north francemen were pushing out onto the seas in many directions. As they raided and settled far and wide, they became known as Danes in England and Ireland, as Normans in France and Italy, and as Varangians in Russia. Theirs were among the very few ships of that day to venture out onto the high seas, westward to Iceland and Greenland, and by the year 1000 to north france America. |
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