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... resulted in its Brienuilly AUTOGRAPH OF BIENVILLE abandonment in 1717 , and the Company of the West , better known as the Missis- sippi Company , was formed , which succeeded to Crozat's rights . Under the leadership of the notorious ...
... resulted in its Brienuilly AUTOGRAPH OF BIENVILLE abandonment in 1717 , and the Company of the West , better known as the Missis- sippi Company , was formed , which succeeded to Crozat's rights . Under the leadership of the notorious ...
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... resulted in the acquisition of Louisiana.1 1. In 1784 Pittsburg numbered one hundred dwellings and almost one thousand inhabitants . It was the centring point of emigrants to the West , and from it the travellers were carried in keel ...
... resulted in the acquisition of Louisiana.1 1. In 1784 Pittsburg numbered one hundred dwellings and almost one thousand inhabitants . It was the centring point of emigrants to the West , and from it the travellers were carried in keel ...
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... resulted in success in 1800. By 1797 there were added complications . The Spanish minister at Wash- ington was expressing apprehensions of an invasion of upper Louisiana by the English . The English minister Liston denied the charge ...
... resulted in success in 1800. By 1797 there were added complications . The Spanish minister at Wash- ington was expressing apprehensions of an invasion of upper Louisiana by the English . The English minister Liston denied the charge ...
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... frontier to the west . As early as 1782 , while the negotiations were in progress which resulted in the establishment of peace with England by the Treaty of Paris the following year , Franklin wrote to Jay that to part with 64.
... frontier to the west . As early as 1782 , while the negotiations were in progress which resulted in the establishment of peace with England by the Treaty of Paris the following year , Franklin wrote to Jay that to part with 64.
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... resulted in the formal annexation of West Florida to the United States . The exact cost of the Louisiana territory was sixty - four million francs , in the form of United States six per cent bonds , representing a capital of ...
... resulted in the formal annexation of West Florida to the United States . The exact cost of the Louisiana territory was sixty - four million francs , in the form of United States six per cent bonds , representing a capital of ...
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Page 103 - The object of your mission is to explore the Missouri river, and such principal streams of it, as, by its course and communication with the waters of the Pacific Ocean, whether the Columbia, Oregon, Colorado, or any other river, may offer the most direct and practicable water communication across the continent, for the purposes of commerce.
Page 288 - Republic has an incontestable title to the domain and to the possession of the said territory, the First Consul of the French Republic, desiring to give to the United States a strong proof of his friendship, doth hereby cede to the said United States, in the name of the French Republic...
Page 295 - Shall be ratified in good and due form and the ratifications Shall be exchanged in the Space of Six months after the date of the Signature by the Ministers Plenipotentiary or Sooner if possible.
Page 73 - Irresolution and deliberation are no longer in season. I renounce Louisiana. It is not only New Orleans that I will cede, it is the whole colony, without any reservation.
Page 158 - ... the object of all our labors, the reward of all our anxieties. This cheering view exhilarated the spirits of all the party, who were still more delighted on hearing the distant roar of the breakers.
Page 293 - America,] by and with the advice and consent of the Senate of the said States, Robert R. Livingston, Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States, and James Monroe, Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary of the said States, near the Government of the French Republic; and the First Consul, in the name of the French people, Citizen Francis Barbe...
Page 147 - ... on which they stood formed the dividing line between the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. They followed a descent much steeper than that on the eastern side, and at the distance of three quarters of a mile reached a handsome bold creek of cold clear water running to the westward. They stopped to taste for the first time the waters of the Columbia...
Page 288 - Parma, the Colony or Province of Louisiana, with the same extent that it now has in the hands of Spain, and that it had when France possessed it ; and such as it should be after the treaties subsequently entered into between Spain and other States...
Page 132 - ... enterta[in]ing as I do, the most confident hope of succeeding in a voyage which had formed a da[r]ling project of mine for the last ten years, I could but esteem this moment of my departure as among the most happy of my life.
Page 288 - His Catholic Majesty promises and engages on his part to cede to the French Republic, six months after the full and entire execution of the conditions and stipulations herein, relative to his Royal Highness the Duke of Parma, the Colony or Province of Louisiana, with the same extent...