The Louisiana Purchase nearly doubled the size of the ... Having arrived in New Orleans from Paris with his wife and three daughters just nine months earlier, in March 1803, the cultivated ...

April 19, marked the 250th anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord--those first fateful skirmishes in Massachusetts that launched the American Revolution. A day earlier, April 18, marked ...

Art: II In the cession made by the preceeding article are included the adjacent Islands belonging to Louisiana all public ... it Shall have been notified at Paris to the French Government if ...

National Archives The Louisiana Purchase, which more than doubled the size of the existing United States, provided Easterners with more than enough room to grow, and it quickly became a great ...