For more than a century after La Salle took possession of it, the Louisiana Territory, with its scattered French, Spanish, Acadian and German settlements, along with those of Native Americans and ...

The territory included approximately 60,000 non-Native settlers (French, Spanish, African, and creole – half of whom were enslaved) and around 150,000 Native Americans.

Joseph was born circa 1800 in then-French-controlled Poste des Opelousas, three years before the Louisiana Purchase. Celeste Guimont Lemelle is the daughter of Louis Lemelle and Celeste Olympe ...

On Sept. 28. 1801, Madison first broached the purchase plan in his instructions to Robert R. Livingston, Minister to the Court of St. Germain: only the Floridas are spoken of as yet, which are ...

The Louisiana Purchase was still two years away. ... The orphan boys were told that if they cooperated, they would be ...

Fifteen million dollars is the original amount spent by the U.S. to France for The Louisiana Purchase, and by today's standards, the price of the expansive territory is still considered a steal.

The Louisiana Purchase In 1803, the United States paid France $15 million for the Louisiana Territory, approximately 828,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River.

Made by RKO-Pathe, in Pathe color and three-dimension, in observance of the 150th anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase from France at a cost of $15,000,000 (more than the annual income of the U.S ...

The Louisiana Purchase changed the trajectory of U.S. expansion in the beginning of the 19th century, allowing the size of the country to grow by 530,000,000 acres. And at only a cost to the U.S ...