The message describes the Louisiana Purchase as potentially the best land deal in history. From 1700 to 1803, France ...

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 ...

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WASHINGTON (WCSC) - The United States Senate ratified a landmark treaty that doubled the size of the country and fundamentally changed its trajectory on Oct. 14, 1803. It was on that date that the ...

The US Senate ratified the Louisiana Purchase Treaty. The agreement bought land in the western half of the Mississippi River basin at a price of $15 million, or approximately four cents per acre. It ...

IF the secret police of Paris, whose business it was to intercept letters for the private guidance of the First Consul in the spring of 1803, had chanced to peer through the windows of a certain ...

Louisiana Purchase State Park is one of the coolest places in Arkansas. Hold on a second. We're going to have to go at this a little differently from here onward because we are quickly learning that ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — Ever wondered where the name of the Louisiana cities came from? According to National Geographic, Louisiana was claimed in 1541 by Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto. By ...