Why did Napoleon sell Louisiana to the Americas?
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Wrong, Napoleon did sell louisiana for $15 million, but he only sold it because he and France were at war with England and Napoleon did not want the territory to be a bargaining chip during and/or after the war.
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Poland sent us Thaddeus Kosciusko, he was a General.  There's a statue to him at the US Military Academy at West Point.\n\nFrance sent us LaFayette.  He became like a son to General George Washington.  LaFayette gave Washington a key to the Bastille.  The key is on the wall at Mount Vernon, Washington's home.\n\nThe British used German Troops and the US countered by using German-American Troops.
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What would be a reason to colonize any land?  Why did the Indians come over here way back when the land was connected to Europe?   Hunger for food, wealth, saftey and life.   It is rather silly to equate our feelings and our present laws with the actions and rules that were prevalent in those days.   It was nothing at all to kill for survival and greed in those days.    The Native American also killed, pillaged and raped his neighbor for numerous reasons and it was an accepted fact.   I don't think you can find any other nation in the world that has coddled and repaid their indigenous people as well as has the USA.  Check it out!  Go to an old plantation in the south and look at the slaves quarters, then look at what they came from. Early death in the disease ridden jungles, right? They had it better here as slaves, except with bad slave owners, of course.  Think about it!
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Wikipedia has some information - pay attention to the part about Napoleon wanting to gird for war with Britain.\n\nThe second link has a few other links that may also be helpful.
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Now if I was an ordinary person I'd most probably be unable to write anyway, but I would try to show how well our side was doing.\nTry to show that revolution would occur in all countries like France, as others followed the example set.\nShow how Napoleon was gradually conquering the world, well it doesn't have to be true does it, and make sure that Napoleon had a copy of it. Then he would give you more information, and most probably a decent meal.\nMention what a great thing it was to drive on the right.\nEnclose a charter for all good citizens of the revolution to follow.
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The American victory at Saratoga was an extremely important one. It ended the British plan to separate New England from the other colonies. It also showed European nations that the new country might really be able to win its revolutionary war. This was something that France, especially, had wanted ever since being defeated by the British earlier in the French and Indian War. \n\nThe French government had been supplying the Americans secretly through the work of America's minister to France, Benjamin Franklin. Franklin was popular with the French people and with French government officials. He helped gain French sympathy for the American cause. \n\nAfter the American victory at Saratoga, the French decided to enter the war on the American side. The government recognized American independence. The two nations signed military and political treaties. France and Britain were at war once again. The British immediately sent a message to America's Continental Congress. They offered to change everything so relations would be as they had been in 1773. The Americans rejected the offer. The war would be fought to the end. \n\nIn 1779 Spain entered the war against the British. And the next year, the British were also fighting the Dutch to stop their trade with America. The French sent gunpowder, soldiers, officers, and ships to the Americans. However, neither side made much progress in the war for the next two years
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The 13 colonies belonged to England (GA, SC, NC, VA, MD, DE, PA, NJ, NY, CT, RI, MA, NH)  France had territorial claims to parts of the Mississippi river valley, Florida and the south west was claimed by Spain. let's not forget Native Americans who were here before England, France or Spain
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This is comparing apples to oranges.  It costs a lot less to rebuild New Orleans than it does to ship troops and military equipment to the Middle East and to direct the war out there.  If the war was in the US, then it wouldn't cost as much as it does now.
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Mexico fought France, and won, and with the US, and lost.
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lewis and clark were people who went west of the US at that time (1803). they were to explore the Louisiana Purchase that thier president bought from france. they brought back valuble maps and information of the lousiana purchase and west of that
191807
He helped keep it tidy. Now, Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark ( or was it Lois and Clark) to open up the western lands after the Louisiana purchase. They paved the way for the Oregon Trail, which is still very tidy.
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Okay but this answer is pretty long.\n\nNapoleon's determination to implement the Continental System had led him to embark on the Peninsular Campaign in a further extension of the French Wars.  Although the attempt to conquer Spain was failing, Napoleon set about a greater task: the conquest of Russia.  One reason for this was that Britain had become involved in a war with America and Napoleon was convinced that Britain was on the verge of collapse, provided that the blockade of trade with Britain was carried out.  However, the Czar was making a big hole in the plan. The interview at Erfurt had merely checked the process of disillusionment which had been going on in Alexander’s mind ever since Tilsit. There had always been a strong anti-Bonaparte party at his Court, headed by the Czar's mother; and its influence was strengthened during the next few years. For instance \n\nNapoleon would not give definite assurances that he would not turn the Grand Duchy of Warsaw into a Kingdom of Poland  \nwhen Napoleon annexed northern Germany in 1811 he had dethroned the Duke of Oldenburg, the Czar’s uncle, with insultingly offhand talk of compensations elsewhere \nthe Czar was angry to discover the depth of Napoleon's opposition to Russia acquiring Constantinople in the war which Alexander had just begun with Turkey. \nThe main trouble was over the Continental System. The stoppage of trade with England meant the ruin of Russian commerce, and therefore of the Czar’s revenues; also of the corn-growing on which the Russian nobles depended for their own incomes. Alexander grew slacker and slacker in the enforcement of the Decrees, and Napoleon’s protests grew more and more heated. In 1810 the Czar forbade the importation of a number of luxury articles, such as wines and lace, most of which came from France, in order to redress his trade-balance. A year later he openly admitted British shipping to his ports.\n\nNapoleon thought that he could not let this go on. Ruinous as the defection of Russia was in itself, even worse was the effect it would have on other countries groaning under the System. He believed that he must make an example of the Czar that would intimidate other rulers who were “willing to wound yet half afraid to strike": He intended to give a demonstration of his overwhelming strength and determination but he was no longer the man he had been. \n\nNapoleon was growing old at an age when others were just coming into their prime. He was becoming fatter, less energetic and more cautious.  He made more military mistakes and his run of success had robbed him of all sense of the attainable.  He had begun to shut his eyes to unpleasant facts, and to ignore the voice of common sense.\n\nWhen in the middle of 1811 the clash became inevitable, Czar and Emperor competed with each other in the search for alliances. Austria was now bound to Napoleon by family ties following his marriage to Princess Marie Louise; moreover, however much the Emperor Francis of Austria- Hungary chafed against his dependence, he was haunted by memories of Campo Formio, Lunéville, Pressburg and Schönbrunn. He therefore agreed to mobilise an army on his Galician frontier with an understanding that he was to recover his Illyrian provinces at the end of the campaign. However, his new Chancellor, Metternich, had seen enough while he was the Austrian ambassador at Paris to realise that the Napoleonic Empire would not last much longer, and he privately made a “gentleman’s agreement” with Alexander that his army should do nothing in particular. \n\nIn Prussia, patriotic fervour was strong, but the King’s nerve had been even more shaken than that of the Emperor Francis. He was forced to send an army to cover the Baltic flank of the coming invasion, and to feed the invading host as it passed through his dominions. The Poles, too, remained faithful to Napoleon; he had done much for them, and would, they hoped, do more when he had conquered
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"In late 1861, Napoleon III of France sent his troops to Mexico, supposedly to collect debts owed by a previous Mexican government. President Benito Juárez had agreed to pay these debts, but only in installments. The true goal of Napoleon III was to dispose of the Mexican Constitutional Government, set up a monarchy favorable to France, and then expand control to Central and South America.\n\nNapoleon III's troops occupied the port city of Veracruz on December 8, 1861. The expedition's true goal soon became apparent."\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Puebla\n\nhttp://www.historychannel.com/tdih/tdih.jsp?category=general&month=10272957&day=10272970
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Louis XVI was a "good" king, he had no "carism", he was  just a good Handyman. But he ruined france, more than france was already when he decided to help the "future United-stated" against the biggest french enemy, the british. At that time, french had got a big part of the present territory of USA, high from Louisiana(in homage of Louis XIV) to Quebec. all the valley of the Mississippi was french's territory. U must Know cities like "Baton Rouge", "New Orleans/La Nouvelle Orléans" in French or "Louisville, Mississippi", "Nashville","Cape Girardeau","st louis" or "DES MOINES", or THE "Maine" like the "Maine-et-loire" in France, Montpelier, vermont etc... You understand why french didn't wanna see british next to their colony. after the independance day of the USA france was totaly bankrupted and began one of the more dangerous country until the French revolution and the government couldn't do anything with "impotent king" who started to lose his head...
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France, Native Americans.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Purchase
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The proclamation closed off the frontier to colonial expansion. It was meant to calm the fears of the Indians, who felt that the colonists would drive them from their lands as they expanded westward. However the colonists could not help but feel a strong resentment when what they viewed to be their prize was snatched away from them. The proclamation stated that "all lands west of the heads of all rivers which flowed into the Atlantic Ocean from the west or northwest were off-limits to the colonists." I think the colonists would have been really upset to hear that. The url below is where i found my answer... after alot of reading