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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. of ...
Three Americans, a Briton and a French professor born in the U.S., receive France's highest honor for stopping a terror attack on a speeding French train. CLEVELAND ...
In 1803, the United States nearly doubled in size when it bought the Louisiana Territory in a deal that shaped history. American diplomats Robert Livingston and James Monroe purchased the Louisiana ...