america buying land — adam smith institute

The US had previously extended its territory in 1818 by securing the Red River Valley without payment by agreement with the British. In the 1819 Florida Purchase, Spain ceded lands in Florida and Louisiana, but since the US assumed $5 million in claims by US citizens against Spain, no money..

the original border wall

Moreover, as Aranda’s warning exemplifies, Spaniards believed that they would soon have to confront a direct British or American trespass on their territory. Before the Revolutionary War, that threat was most tangibly present in Louisiana (ceded to Spain by France in 1763), where..

the rise and fall of new world slavery

In the book, I scrutinize the imperial conflicts that contributed to this, especially the Louisiana Purchase (1803) and Mexican War (1846–48). It is often not realized that the British and North Americans vied with one another for the spoils of “free trade” and continued to feed the..

revolutionary war

IN THE EARLY summer of 1775 the rebeb of Virginia evicted their royalist governor, John Murray, Earl of Dunmore, from his capital at Williamsburg and drove him to refuge aboard a British warship. ... The Forgotten Revolutionary Conquistador Who Saved Louisiana . . . Imagine, for a moment,..

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