All the western states and territories . Gkn. Taylors Western view of Baton Rouge. LOUISIANA. 615 PUKCHA3E OF LOUISIANA.* In 1763, Louisiana was ceded to Spain, and by a secret article in the treaty ofSt. Ildefonso, concluded in 1800, that power ceded it back to France. Napoleon,however, wished to keep this cession secret until he should have—as he hoped todo—reduced Ht. Domingo to submission. Failing in this, he was rendered indif-ferent to his new acquisition. In January, 1803, he sent out Laussat as prefect ofthe colony, which was the first intimation that the inhabitants had of
All the western states and territories . Gkn. Taylors Western view of Baton Rouge. LOUISIANA. 615 PUKCHA3E OF LOUISIANA.* In 1763, Louisiana was ceded to Spain, and by a secret article in the treaty ofSt. Ildefonso, concluded in 1800, that power ceded it back to France. Napoleon,however, wished to keep this cession secret until he should have—as he hoped todo—reduced Ht. Domingo to submission. Failing in this, he was rendered indif-ferent to his new acquisition. In January, 1803, he sent out Laussat as prefect ofthe colony, which was the first intimation that the inhabitants had of the transferwhich gave them great joy. On being informed of this retrocession. President Jefferson had dispatched in-structions to Robert Livingston, the American minister at Paris, to represent tothe First Consul that the occupation of New Orleans by France would endangerthe friendly relations between the two nations, and, perhaps, even oblige the UnitedStates to make common cause with England; as the possession of this city by theformer, by giving her th
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