. North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history. losed to the United States. Aproposition had been submitted to the United States Congress, to appropriate$5,000,000, and send an army of men to seize the mouth of the MississippiRiver. Robert R. Livingston, United States minister to France, was in Paris,endeavoring to arrange the matter amicably with the French. He was joined byJames Monroe, of ^irginia, commissioned to assist in the work, in whose handsthe sum of $2,000,000 was placed to secure the cession of New Orleans and theFloridas. While these negotiations were pend
. North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history. losed to the United States. Aproposition had been submitted to the United States Congress, to appropriate$5,000,000, and send an army of men to seize the mouth of the MississippiRiver. Robert R. Livingston, United States minister to France, was in Paris,endeavoring to arrange the matter amicably with the French. He was joined byJames Monroe, of ^irginia, commissioned to assist in the work, in whose handsthe sum of $2,000,000 was placed to secure the cession of New Orleans and theFloridas. While these negotiations were pending with no apparent likelihood ofsuccess. President Jefferson had proposed to Congress that an expedition besent to trace the Missouri River to its source, crossing the highlands, and follow-ing the best water communication to the Pacific Ocean. Congress had made this appropriation, and Captain Lewis, who was thenPresident Jeffersons private secretarv-, had been chosen to carry the plan intoeffect. Suddenly Napoleons policy changed and he demanded the L^nited. HISTORY OF NORTH DAKOTA 59 States take not only New Orleans and the Floridas, but the whole of Louisiana,and the price finally agreed upon was 80,000,000 francs (about fifteen milliondollars) the French commissioners insisting, however, that the compact must besigned and sealed without delay. The envoys assumed the responsibility andcompleted the treaty, which was ratified by a vote of twenty-four to seven in theLnited States Senate, October 20, 1803. The purchase price included 20,000,000francs for the payment of the debts of the Louisiana Province which the UnitedStates assumed. The total of the purchase up to June 20, 1880. was$27,267,621. The population of the ]jrovince at the time of the purchase did notexceed With the conclusion of the treaty. Napoleon, who realized that he mustlose this vast possession, was happy in the thought that it would not fall toEngland, and that he was free to attack that
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