France's Forgotten Legion 
Subtitle: Service Records of French Military and Administrative Personnel Stationed in the Mississippi Valley and Gulf Coast Region, 1699-1769
Edition: CD-Rom edition
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: June 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780807124833
Subjects: United States - Colonial Period; History; History - U.S.; History: American; American history: c 1500 to c 1800; Bibliographies, catalogues, discographies; Colonization & independence; Genealogy; Louisiana; c 1700 to c 1800; United States - State & Local - General
First sentence: Louisiana was established at a time of French colonial expansion in the New World, and the mother country's policy regarding its colonies dictated that overseas settlements "should be extensions of the mother country, 'New Frances,' very much like old France, but improved."