Louisianna Purchase

The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from the French First Republic in 1803. This consisted of most of the land in the Mississippi River's drainage basin west of the river. In return for $15 million, or approximately $18 per square mile ($7/km2), the United States nominally acquired a total of 828,000 sq mi of land now in the Central United States. However, France only controlled a small fraction of this area, most of which was inhabited by Native Americans; effectively, for the majority of the area, the United States bought the preempti

✓ Public Identity Verified ✓ LinkedIn Profile Mapped ✓ Public Records Indexed ✓ Zero-Trace View Enabled

John Aielli Radio broadcaster Camila Alves Brazilian-American model and designer Killing of Javier Ambler 2019 death during arrest in Austin, Texas Joseph Baldwin American educationalist William Lee Bergstrom American gambler William R. Brownfield American diplomat Kenneth C. Brugger American naturalist Caleb Hammer American YouTuber