The Louisiana Purchase ... close the Mississippi to American use. This must have been a wrenching moment for Jefferson, who had long been a Francophile. Twelve years before, he had returned ...

About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start ... Bearing Upon the Purchase of the Territory of Louisiana," published by Congress ...

On April 30th, 1803, American diplomats in Paris reached an agreement with the French government to purchase the Louisiana Territory for approximately $16 million. It’s a massive but imprecisely ...

Before Spain had transferred ... Purchase was one of the biggest land bargains in American history. When both countries signed the Louisiana Purchase treaty on May 2, 1803 (backdated to April ...

How could its legal system have relied on the Napoleonic Code when the code was written in 1804, a year after the U.S. acquired its territory in the Louisiana Purchase? The answer is simply that ...

Today I expain the Louisiana Purchase by the United States of America, from France - in 5 ... Movies of All Time See the universe like never before captured by a 609 megapixel camera Supreme ...