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Patron Reward: Orleans Territory
🕑 Added 2020-08-28 17:33:44 +0000 UTCThis map is a reward for $20-tier patron Jacob Sias!
It's a map of the Orleans territory C. 1805 (dark purple), right after the Louisiana purchase. The Louisiana territory (light purple), United States (blue), and New Spain (red) are also shown.
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Comments
Nate El
He wanted to ensure the Americans fought the British and stayed onside with the french. After the loss of Haïti/ Saint Domingue and the end of his Carribean dreams, it wasn’t worth holding a source of grain he couldn’t get to Europe regularly through the brits. This is my understanding.
Overly Sarcastic Productions
All I can say is stay tuned for Indigenous Peoples' Day! 👀 -B
Eric Stovall
Question for Blue: Is there any aspect of American history you'd really like to tell, such as the journey of Lewis and Clark, or how some of the most revolutionary inventions of the earlty 20th century came about (planes, automobiles, radio, television, etc.)
Stephen Gillie
We only wanted New Orleans, but Napoleon got the Louisiana Purchase from Spain somehow and sold us the whole thing to fund his Continental System to keep the UK out of Europe. Was he jealous of our Manifest Destiny, while trying to establish his own?
Shesha
Huh, I didn't realise it was so narrow at the coast, or that it was the US's first Gulf of Mexico access.
