Time to Grow: The Louisiana Territory
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Recreates the circumstance leading up to the purchase of the Louisiana Territory by Robert Livingston and James Monroe, American Commissioners to Paris, for 15 million dollars. Explains that when the United States sought to buy the Port of New Orleans from France, Joseph Bonaparte and Maurice Talleyrand opposed the sale. Depicts Napoleon ordering Talleyrand to sell the entire Louisiana Territory and Talleyrand, in an attempt to prevent the transfer of the territory from French control, setting a price he believed the American Commissioners could not possibly accept.
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