Realm · 1940–1944
Free French
Free French appears on the map from 1940 to 1944. At its greatest recorded extent, in 1942, it covered about 2.38 million km².
One of the realms of French Colonial Empire. France's first colonial empire began with Jacques Cartier's voyages to the St Lawrence in 1534 and grew into New France, a vast fur-trading realm reaching down the Mississippi to Louisiana, plus rich sugar islands such as Saint-Domingue worked by enslaved Africans. Defeat by Britain in 1763 cost Canada and most of India, the Haitian Revolution freed Saint-Domingue, and Napoleon sold Louisiana in 1803.
See Free French on the map in 1942
- On the map
- 1940–1944
- Greatest extent
- 1942, about 2.38 million km²
- Read more
- Wikipedia: Free France · Wikidata Q152582
Territory through time
| Years | Area drawn |
|---|---|
| 1940 | 1.65 million km² |
| 1941 | 2.36 million km² |
| 1942–1943 | 2.38 million km² |
| 1944 | 89,085 km² |
Related
- French Colonial Empire empire
- Second World War 1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945