The French Expedition to Louisiana in 1762

He lost a ton of money. He was released from the charter, but the French expeditions kind of continued there for a while. But it was sort of, you know, they were outnumbered. They were mostly still indigenous Americans populating the area until 1762 when the seven years war happened and France said, you know what, this territory is now going to belong to Spain. And I saw that even when Spain kind of ruled this area as far as the European powers were concerned for 37 years, there were more French officials calling the shots than there were Spanish officials.