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France I believe.
British lost much of its land in the east between 1763 and1783
Members of the nobility owned the houses on their manors. The landed gentry was sometimes regarded as of the nobility, and sometimes not, but they owned land and the houses on it. There were a lot of small land holders who owned their own land, they are referred to as yeomen. In towns and cities, a lot of the housing was owned by landlords, who are probably best described as middle class. The Church owned a lot of land and the houses on it. Serfs and tenants, of course, did not own their houses.
That land was claimed by France. Napoleon agreed to sell it to the US to get money he needed to fund his wars in Europe.
White, wealthy men.