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France did not abandon its claims to Texas until November 3, 1762, when it ceded all of its territory west of the Mississippi River to Spain in the Treaty of Fontainebleau, following its defeat by Great Britain in the Seven Years' War.
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Essonne was formed on 1 January 1968, when Seine-et-Oise was split into smaller departments. Its prefecture is Évry-Courcouronnes . Its INSEE and postcode number is 91.
Created by the law of July 10, 1964 (on the reorganization of the Paris region) Essonne is a very recent department. But the history of the lands that compose it (Hurepoix, Brie, Gâtinais and northern Beauce), goes back several millennia.
The symbolic and founding element of the Essonne territory is water. The department is crossed by the Seine, the Bievre, the Chalouette, the Remarde, the Juine, the Barley, the Yvette, the Yerres, and … the Essonne! This is why many of our cities are named after a watercourse.
Jul 22, 2009 · René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, established a French settlement on the Texas coast in summer 1685, the result of faulty geography that caused him to believe the Mississippi River emptied into the Gulf of Mexico in the Texas coastal bend.
A timeline detailing the history of settlement in Texas, from 1718 all the way to 1871.
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Peoples and Cultures of Early Texas: Germans and Czechs. Two national groups that were particularly prominent in the early settlement of Texas were the Germans and the Czechs, with the former comprising a very large part of the population since Texas gained its independence from Mexico.
