More than 450 years ago, a three-masted ship sank in a hurricane off the coast of Florida, taking with it France's hopes of colonizing the peninsula."If there had not been this hurricane, who knows?"
  • Odelay42@lemmy.world
    8·
    1 year ago

    The witless irony of France vehemently opposing another country laying claim to its historical artifacts is palpable.

  • GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml
    6·
    1 year ago

    Because of how terribly things have turned out, I'd like to imagine that if France ended up successfully colonizing what we call Florida today that maybe it, and world history generally, would've been a tiny bit less shitty.

      • wildncrazyguy@kbin.social
        3·
        1 year ago

        But weirdly enough, the French transferred New Orleans ownership over to Spain so that it wasn’t lost as a spoil of war. The Spanish then governed it for 40 years before it was given back and then promptly sold to the US.