these orders Shall be payable Sixty days after the exchange of ratifications of the Treaty and the Conventions Signed this day, and after possession Shall be given of Louisiana by the Commissaries ...

The Louisiana Purchase nearly doubled the size of the ... when Napoléon negotiated the clandestine Treaty of San Ildefonso with Spain’s Charles IV. The treaty called for the return of the ...

The Treaty of Paris, which was signed by the ... Twenty years later, the Louisiana Purchase marked the country’s first major expansion, with the United States buying the Louisiana Territory ...

Now if memory or, more accurately, history serves, the Navajo and Ute peoples inhabited the area well before the 1800s, and prior to them, their relatives, the Ancestral Puebloans lived there. So the ...