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Name: French Louisiana

Type: Polity

Start: 1800 AD

End: 1803 AD

Parent: france

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Was a French territory in North America, corresponing to the central contiguous U.S., that was obtained by Spain during the Napoleonic Wars and was sold to the United States after a few years.

Establishment

  • October 1800: In the secretly negotiated Third Treaty of San Ildefonso in 1800, Spain returned the colonial territory of Louisiana to France. This was done under the rule of King Charles IV of Spain and First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte of France.

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    1. French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

    Were a series of conflicts between France and several European monarchies between 1792 and 1815. They encompass first the French Revolutionary Wars against the newly declared French Republic and from 1803 onwards the Napoleonic Wars against First Consul and later Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. They include the Coalition Wars as a subset: seven wars waged by various military alliances of great European powers, known as Coalitions, against Revolutionary France - later the First French Empire - and its allies.

    1.1.Treaty of San Ildefonso (1800)

    Was a secret agreement signed on 1 October 1800 between the Spanish Empire and the French Republic by which Spain agreed to exchange its North American colony of Louisiana for territories in Tuscany.

    2. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)

  • August 1803: U.S. treaty concluded at Vincennes (Indiana) with the Kaskaskia.

  • December 1803: "Louisiana Purchase": acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from France. In return for $15 million, or approximately eighteen dollars per square mile, the United States nominally acquired a total of 828,000 sq mi (2,140,000 km2; 530,000,000 acres). The purchase was completed on December, 20 1803.

    • Disestablishment

  • August 1803: U.S. treaty concluded at Vincennes (Indiana) with the Kaskaskia.
  • December 1803: "Louisiana Purchase": acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from France. In return for $15 million, or approximately eighteen dollars per square mile, the United States nominally acquired a total of 828,000 sq mi (2,140,000 km2; 530,000,000 acres). The purchase was completed on December, 20 1803.

    • Selected Sources

  • On this day, the Louisiana Purchase is completed. National Constitution Center. 20 December 2022. https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/on-this-day-the-louisiana-purchase-is-completed#:~:text=Life%20in%20the%20newly%20formed,and%20doubling%20the%20country's%20size.
  • Royce, C. C. (1899): Indian Land Cessions in the United States, Eighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, p. 664

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