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To: Red Badger

Doubtful that the expedition would have made Florida “French-speaking.” The French managed to establish a few outposts often on, and the Spanish were usually pretty brutal and efficient in excising them from the landscape, as it were.


10 posted on 12/14/2016 6:43:07 AM PST by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Flag burners can go screw -- I'm mighty PROUD of that ragged old flag)
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd

Here in West Florida, the French influence from New Orleans, just down the beach a ways, is still being felt..................


13 posted on 12/14/2016 6:45:57 AM PST by Red Badger
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