The Louisiana Purchase and Our Title West of the Rocky Mountains: With a Review of Annexation by the United StatesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1898 - 87 páginas |
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... President Monroe William H. Seward . President Polk .. Thomas H. Benton .. SUPERIEUR GOLFE DE HUDSON LA . LOU LAC DESALINOIS SANE.
... President Monroe William H. Seward . President Polk .. Thomas H. Benton .. SUPERIEUR GOLFE DE HUDSON LA . LOU LAC DESALINOIS SANE.
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... President for relief through negotiation , or , if that failed , by war . It became a party issue . President Jefferson foresaw the growing discontent , and endeav- ored to allay the excitement by assurance of every possible effort on ...
... President for relief through negotiation , or , if that failed , by war . It became a party issue . President Jefferson foresaw the growing discontent , and endeav- ored to allay the excitement by assurance of every possible effort on ...
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... President John Adams , who sent an embassy to France in 1798 to adjust the differences between the two nations . The French Directory added insult to injury by refusing to give audience to the embassy . Assurances were finally given ...
... President John Adams , who sent an embassy to France in 1798 to adjust the differences between the two nations . The French Directory added insult to injury by refusing to give audience to the embassy . Assurances were finally given ...
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... President , in buying Louisiana . These men , as the noted representatives of the two countries in this transaction , may well be depended on to convey to us the most accurate information touching the cession in all its phases . Marquis ...
... President , in buying Louisiana . These men , as the noted representatives of the two countries in this transaction , may well be depended on to convey to us the most accurate information touching the cession in all its phases . Marquis ...
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... President Madison . In 1814-15 he acted as Secretary of War . In 1816 , at the age of 59 , he was elected President of the United States , and was reelected in 1821 with almost complete unanimity . Under his administration much ...
... President Madison . In 1814-15 he acted as Secretary of War . In 1816 , at the age of 59 , he was elected President of the United States , and was reelected in 1821 with almost complete unanimity . Under his administration much ...
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acquired acquisition Alaska American annexation assertion authority Benton BINGER HERMANN Britain British bushels California cattle and sheep ceded claim of contiguity claims of Spain coast colony Columbia river Congress adverse country west Crozat degree of latitude discovery domain east England expedition exploration extended Florida treaty foreign forty-ninth parallel France French further gold production gold yield governor Gulf Hawaii Iberville island Jefferson JOINT OCCUPANCY lakes Maurepas lands Lewis and Clarke LIMIT OF LOUISIANA live stock Livingston Louisiana cession Louisiana Purchase lumber Majesty Marbois Mexico Mississippi Missouri Monroe Montana mouth name of Louisiana Napoleon nation navigation negotiation Oregon country Orleans output Perdido portion possession President province Republic RETROCEDES river Mississippi Rocky Mountains RUSSIA'S CLAIM Salle Salle's Senate settlement silver and live SILVER PRODUCT Spain Spaniards Spanish square miles Talleyrand territory thence treaty of Utrecht United value and resources Washington waters West Florida wheat yield Wilkes Exploring Expedition
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Página 35 - His Catholic Majesty cedes to the United States, in full property and sovereignty, all the territories which belong to him, situated to the eastward of the Mississippi, known by the name of East and West Florida.
Página 31 - Parma, the colony or province of Louisiana, with the same extent that it now has in the hands of Spain, and that it had when France possessed it, and such as it should be after the treaties subsequently entered into between Spain and other States.
Página 15 - The day that France takes possession of New Orleans fixes the sentence which is to restrain her forever within her low water mark. It seals the union of two nations who, in conjunction, can maintain exclusive possession of the ocean. From that moment we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation.
Página 12 - America ; it is agreed, that for the future, the confines between the dominions of His Britannic Majesty, and those of His Most Christian Majesty, in that part of the world, shall be fixed irrevocably by a line drawn along the middle of the river Mississippi, from its source to the river Iberville, and from thence, by a line drawn along the middle of this river, and the lakes Maurepas and Pontchartrain, to the sea...
Página 4 - Pole, and also to the mouth of the River of Palms ; upon the assurance which we have received from all these nations, that we are the first Europeans who have descended or ascended the said River Colbert...
Página 38 - River; then, following the course of the Rio Roxo westward, to the degree of longitude 100 west from London and 23 from Washington ; then, crossing the said Red River, and running thence, by a line due north, to the river Arkansas...
Página 28 - I do not know," replied Talleyrand. "You must take it as we received it." "But what did you mean to take?" said Livingston. "I do not know,
Página 31 - Majesty, in that part of the world, shall be fixed irrevocably by a line drawn along the middle of the river Mississippi, from its source to the river Iberville, and from thence, by a line drawn along the middle of this river, and the lakes Maurepas and Pontchartrain, to the sea ; and...
Página 35 - If those departments which are intrusted with the foreign intercourse of the nation, which assert and maintain its interests against foreign powers, have unequivocally asserted its rights of dominion over a country of which it is in possession and which it claims under a treaty; if the legislature has acted on the construction thus a-sserted, it is not in its own courts that this construction is to be denied.
Página 39 - Island, which point lies in the parallel of 54 degrees 40 minutes north latitude, and between the 131st and 133d degree of west longitude, (meridian of Greenwich,) the said line shall ascend to the north along the channel called Portland Channel, as far as the point of the continent where it strikes the 56th degree of north latitude...