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1 online resource (309 pages). |
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Thomas Jefferson anthology |
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Thomas Jefferson anthology.
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BiblioBoard Core module.
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"Printed from the original manuscripts in the Library of the American Philosophical Society and by direction of the society's Committee on Historical Documents." |
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Designed by Bruce Rogers. |
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"Five hundred and fifty copies printed"--Verso of t.p. |
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Original document: Book. |
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The limits and bounds of Louisiana / by Thomas Jefferson -- The exploration of the Red, the Black, and the Washita rivers / by William Dunbar. |
| Summary |
In an unprecedented legal agreement, Thomas Jefferson doubled the size of the United States in an afternoon. The Louisiana Purchase was an 1803 transaction in which the United States bought over 280,000 acres of land from the French. During the Napoleonic Wars between France and Britain, the slave uprisings in the French holdings in the Caribbean left France in financial trouble. Jefferson sent James Monroe and Robert R. Livingston to Paris to negotiate the buying of the city of New Orleans, a crucial port city for America. To their surprise, Napoleon offered the entire French territory for a price of $15 million. On December 20, 1803, the French flag was lowered in New Orleans and the flag of the United States of America flew in its stead. Between 1804 and 1806, under the orders of Thomas Jefferson, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark explored the new territory, bringing back samples of plants, foods and animals native to the area. These reports and more are included in this volume. |
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GMD: electronic resource. |
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Louisiana Purchase.
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Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel.
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Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
Limits and bounds of Louisiana.
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Dunbar, William, 1749-1810.
Exploration of the Red, the Black, and the Washita rivers.
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Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957.
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Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
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Purchase & exploration of Louisiana, 1804 |
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