A renowned historians fascinating account of how the United States doubled its size In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson bought the Louisiana Territory from France for 15 million. The purchase, which included over 600 million acres, extended the boundaries of the United States fr…
"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 Territo…