>>216628062
Nominally it was ours and it was explored and had hundreds of fortifications, monasteries, presidios, etc.

And this is different in what the brits do: they add all of Canada and Australia to their empire yet they did not explore, control, or built anything in 99% of Canada or Australia (and even today they are 99% uninhabited). At least we explored, named thousands of places, built alliances, and nominally controlled it.

>>216628275
We owned it. The "french" quarters irl are Spanish quarters.