The Louisiana Purchase / Thomas Fleming.
Fleming, Thomas J.
2003
E333 .F58 2003 (Mapit)
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Title The Louisiana Purchase / Thomas Fleming.
Author Fleming, Thomas J.
ISBN 0471267384
9780471267386
Imprint Hoboken, N.J. : J. Wiley, c2003.
Language English
Description vi, 186 p. ; 21 cm.
Call Number E333 .F58 2003
Dewey Decimal Classification 973.4/6
Summary "In 1801, relations between the world's only two republics, the United States and France, were at a low ebb. American merchants had just lost millions of dollars to French privateers in the "Quasi-War" of the late 1790s, and Napoleon was scheming to acquire the Louisiana Territory from Spain and create a "wall of brass" that would halt America's westward expansion. Yet only a few years later, Napoleon agreed to sell Louisiana to the United States for $15 million. How did America manage to double its territory and end French colonial ambitions in the New World - without firing a shot?" "This book by historian Thomas Fleming delivers the answers. Taking us behind the scenes in. Thomas Jefferson's raw "federal village" of Washington, D.C., and inside the duplicitous world of Napoleonic Paris, Fleming shows how Bonaparte haters in Spain, the French army's disastrous failure in Haiti, some wily American negotiating, and Napoleon's resolve to renew his war with "perfidious Albion" led to the momentous French decision to sell Louisiana - and cede 838,000 square miles of land to the United States. Along the way, we meet a host of characters as they attempt to advance their nations' interests - and their personal ambitions - through diplomacy, threats, lies, bribery, and treachery."--Jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references.
Series Turning points (John Wiley & Sons)
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Idealist at work
Realist at work
The game begins
Frustration all around
Aedes Aegypti to the rescue
The dying general
A war hero to the rescue
Between peace and war
All eyes on Paris
The big bargain
Hanging fire
Constitution bending in Washington D.C.
Triumph and new perils
Destiny takes charge
Final challenge.

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