With the loss of the French possessions the older cases of the kind disappeared.

For reasons that remain unclear, no attempt was made to spike other allied guns while they were in French possession.

Reunion, a French possession since 1638, has a multiracial population of 600,000.

It is important to be clear about the extent and status of those south-western French possessions.

The economic consequences of the French possession to the company were significant; it did not pay any dividends for more than 20 years.

It has been a French possession since 1897.

In 1802 the island became a French possession, and its economy flourished.

That is another former French possession, now under Syrian colonization.

The islands of Guadeloupe have been a French possession since 1635.