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  2. Louisiana Purchase - Wikipedia

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    The Louisiana Purchase (French: Vente de la Louisiane, lit. 'Sale of Louisiana') was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from the French First Republic in 1803. This consisted of most of the land in the Mississippi River's drainage basin west of the river. [1]

  3. Neutral Ground (Louisiana) - Wikipedia

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    France took formal control of Louisiana from Spain on November 30, 1803, and turned over New Orleans to the United States on December 20, 1803. The U.S. took over the rest of the territory on March 10, 1804. The Louisiana Purchase doubled the size of the United States and opened U.S. expansion west to the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf Coast.

  4. Treaty of Fontainebleau (1762) - Wikipedia

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    Having lost Canada (New France), King Louis XV of France proposed to King Charles III of Spain that France should give Spain "the country known as Louisiana, as well as New Orleans and the island in which the city is situated." [1] Charles ratified the treaty on November 13 and Louis ratified it on November 23, 1762.

  5. Louisiana (New Spain) - Wikipedia

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    De Soto claiming the Mississippi, as depicted in the United States Capitol rotunda. Louisiana (Spanish: La Luisiana, [la lwiˈsjana]), [1] or the Province of Louisiana (Provincia de La Luisiana), was a province of New Spain from 1762 to 1801 primarily located in the center of North America encompassing the western basin of the Mississippi River plus New Orleans.

  6. History of New Orleans - Wikipedia

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    In April 1803, Napoleon sold Louisiana (New France) (which then included portions of more than a dozen present-day states) to the U.S. in the Louisiana Purchase. A French prefect , Pierre Clément de Laussat , who had only arrived in New Orleans on March 23, 1803, formally took control of Louisiana for France on November 30, only to hand it ...

  7. Louisiana (New France) - Wikipedia

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    Louisiana (French: Louisiane) or French Louisiana [6] (Louisiane française) was an administrative district of New France.In 1682 the French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle erected a cross near the mouth of the Mississippi River and claimed the whole of the drainage basin of the Mississippi River in the name of King Louis XIV, naming it "Louisiana".

  8. 1803 in France - Wikipedia

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    Monroe and Livingston sail for Paris to discuss, and possibly buy, New Orleans: they end completing the Louisiana Purchase. Napoleon authorizes the celebration of a Joan of Arc feast in Orléans on 8 May. [2] 30 April - Louisiana Purchase made by the United States from France.

  9. Three Flags Day - Wikipedia

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    A postcard of a painting by F. L. Stoddard of the transfer of Upper Louisiana from France to the United States.. Three Flags Day commemorates March 9, and 10, 1804, when Spain officially completed turning over the Louisiana colonial territory to France, which then officially turned over the same lands to the United States, in order to finalize the 1803 Louisiana Purchase.