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Louisiana Purchase Art Print
by Ed Vebell
$19.35
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Louisiana Purchase art print by Ed Vebell. Our art prints are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All art prints include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.
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When, in his inaugural address of 1801, Jefferson boasted that Americans had land enough for our descendants to the 1000th and 1000th generation, he... more
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When, in his inaugural address of 1801, Jefferson boasted that Americans had "land enough for our descendants to the 1000th and 1000th generation," he little dreamed that within two years he would double its territory. That vast area, stretching from the Mississippi River to the Rocky mountains, had long belong to France. In 1763 France ceded it to Spain, but at the beginning of the nineteenth century the all-powerful Napoleon forced Spain to "retrocede" it back to France. A weak Spain could not threaten the bold new United States, but a powerful France, ruled by Napoleon, could. Jefferson was no Anglophil, but as soon as he learned of this coup he wrote to his Minister in Paris, "the day that France takes possession of New Orleans, we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation." That did not prove to be necessary. Instead, with the approval of Congress, he instructed his Minister to buy New Orleans for anything up to ten million dollars. Disillusioned and outraged by the ina...
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