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  2. Louisiana Purchase - Wikipedia

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    [24] On July 4, 1803, the treaty was announced, [25] but the documents did not arrive in Washington, D.C. until July 14. [26] The Louisiana Territory was vast, stretching from the Gulf of Mexico in the south to Rupert's Land in the north, and from the Mississippi River in the east to the Rocky Mountains in the west. Acquiring the territory ...

  3. List of French possessions and colonies - Wikipedia

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    This map shows the Louisiana Purchase area, which corresponds approximately with the western half of colonial French Louisiana, the part not ceded to English-speaking peoples in 1763. Taking up of the Louisiana by La Salle in the name of the Kingdom of France New France at its greatest extent in 1710. Present-day Canada. New France (1534–1763)

  4. Territorial evolution of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The United States purchased Louisiana from France. This is the date of the formal turnover in New Orleans; the purchase was completed on April 30, 1803. [109] The transfer would be recognized in St. Louis in Upper Louisiana on March 10, 1804, known as Three Flags Day.

  5. The Louisiana Purchase was considered a steal in 1803. How ...

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    The Louisiana Purchase changed the trajectory of U.S. expansion in the beginning of the 19th century, allowing the size of the country to grow by 530,000,000 acres. And at only a cost to the U.S ...

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. French colonial empire - Wikipedia

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    Map depicting the staged French pacification of Morocco through to 1934. The French Colonial Empire established a protectorate in Morocco between the years of 1912 to 1956. France's general approach to governing the protectorate of Morocco was a policy of in-direct rule where they co-opted existing governance systems to control the protectorate ...

  9. 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 ...