French India
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In the words of Gulf scholar Paul Rich, this was "the Indian Empire's last redoubt, just as Goa was Portuguese India's last solitary vestige, or Pondicherry was the tag-end of French India".
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2025
In this way the loss of French India and French America, things of the old monarchy, were to be compensated.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 by Various
Messrs. Law and Chevalier, governors in French India, determined to send a vessel at their own risk to trade in the southern seas.
From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century by Benett, Léon
The Mississippi Company was granted the monopoly of all trade to the East Indies, China, the South Seas, and all the territories of the French India Company, and of the Senegal Company.
From The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages by Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor)
"French India" to-day consists of Pondicherry, Karikal, Yanaon, Mahé, and Chandarnagar—196 square miles in all,—while the Indian Empire of Britain spreads over an area of 1,800,000 square miles.
From A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. by Hayes, Carlton J. H.
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