 | Norman K. Risjord - 2002 - 439 sider
...boundaries of Louisiana. The treaty defined the purchase as "Louisiana with the same extent as it now has in the hands of Spain, and that it had when France possessed it." But these were two different things. As part of the old French empire prior to 1763 Louisiana embraced... | |
 | Mary Ann Sternberg - 2007 - 192 sider
...transaction in North America: "the colony or province of Louisiana, with the same extent that it now has in the hands of Spain and that it had when France possessed it, and such as it ought to be according to the treaties subsequently concluded between Spain and other states." From... | |
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