French Louisiana French Louisiana The term French Louisiana refers to two distinct regions: Each term has been in use for many years. Colonial French Louisiana was a part of New France. Beginning in 1682 this region, known in French as "la Louisiane française", functioned as an administrative district of New France. It extended from the Gulf of Mexico to Vincennes, now in Indiana. France ceded the region to Spain and Britain in 1763 after the French and Indian War, regained it by treaty in 1800, and sold it to the United States in 1803 through the Louisiana Purchase. Greater New Orleans and
French ship Intrépide (1800) squadron led by Captain Julien Cosmao of "Pluton", two days later. French ship Intrépide (1800) Intrépide was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the French navy. She was originally built at Ferrol, Spain in 1790 by José Romero y Fernández de Landa as the Spanish ship of the line "Intrepido", and later was sold to France in 1800. On 21 October 1805, "Intrépide" was one of the ships of Rear-Admiral Pierre Dumanoir le Pelley at the Battle of Trafalgar, under Captain Louis-Antoine Infernet. Dumanoir commanded the six ship vanguard of the French fleet, with "Scipion", "Duguay-Trouin", "Mont-Blanc", "Intrépide"