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WHY YOU DONT SPEAK FRENCH / HOW HAITI SAVED AMERICA
Curious? Skeptical?
READ ON - FOR A TANGLED HISTORY TALE
In 1763 France , having lost the 7 years (French and Indian) war with England for the Ohio territory, ceded the southern "Province" of Louisiana and port of New Orleans to Spain in payment to Spain for their help in the battle and loss of Florida.(treaty of Paris). Spain allowed US merchants to use the river and port. However, in 1800, Napoleon Bonapate negotiated a secret treaty with Spain to get it back (Treaty of San Ildefonso).
Alexander Hamilton feared loss of the port, and even invasion by France. He knew of the secret treaty and , when port access was revoked by Spain, sent envoys to France to buy the port of New Orleans. Napoleon had recently in fact made plans to launch a force of occupation of the Louisiana province, and was using as his base of operations and income, France's rich port at Saint Dominique ( Haiti).
France however had some issues. They were being blockaded by England, due to new hostilities, and since 1791 there had been an ongoing slave rebellion on SaintDominique. And it was getting worse. This slave rebellion became the pivotal event for US history. The French tried to hold on until it was a lost cause by1803 . Lacking his income from the "Pearl of the Antilles" ,and a port of operations in the western hemisphere , Napoleon realized his occupation of Louisiana was now doomed.
Representatives sent by Hamilton, were stunned when offered the whole of the Louisiana territory, not just New Orleans. Depite the fact that France had previously agreed only to sell to Spain, and that the US envoys had neither money , authorzation , nor legal constitutional authority to buy it, they did On April 30, 1803 .
Spain protested, but formally transferred power to France on November 30, 1803, and December 20, 1803 France transferred it to the US at the Cabildo in New Orleans. January 1, 1804 Saint Dominique declared independence and took the native Taino name of Haiti, "Land of Mountains". Thus saving the central and possibly all of the US from French occupation. C'est ca!
READ ON - FOR A TANGLED HISTORY TALE
In 1763 France , having lost the 7 years (French and Indian) war with England for the Ohio territory, ceded the southern "Province" of Louisiana and port of New Orleans to Spain in payment to Spain for their help in the battle and loss of Florida.(treaty of Paris). Spain allowed US merchants to use the river and port. However, in 1800, Napoleon Bonapate negotiated a secret treaty with Spain to get it back (Treaty of San Ildefonso).
Alexander Hamilton feared loss of the port, and even invasion by France. He knew of the secret treaty and , when port access was revoked by Spain, sent envoys to France to buy the port of New Orleans. Napoleon had recently in fact made plans to launch a force of occupation of the Louisiana province, and was using as his base of operations and income, France's rich port at Saint Dominique ( Haiti).
France however had some issues. They were being blockaded by England, due to new hostilities, and since 1791 there had been an ongoing slave rebellion on SaintDominique. And it was getting worse. This slave rebellion became the pivotal event for US history. The French tried to hold on until it was a lost cause by1803 . Lacking his income from the "Pearl of the Antilles" ,and a port of operations in the western hemisphere , Napoleon realized his occupation of Louisiana was now doomed.
Representatives sent by Hamilton, were stunned when offered the whole of the Louisiana territory, not just New Orleans. Depite the fact that France had previously agreed only to sell to Spain, and that the US envoys had neither money , authorzation , nor legal constitutional authority to buy it, they did On April 30, 1803 .
Spain protested, but formally transferred power to France on November 30, 1803, and December 20, 1803 France transferred it to the US at the Cabildo in New Orleans. January 1, 1804 Saint Dominique declared independence and took the native Taino name of Haiti, "Land of Mountains". Thus saving the central and possibly all of the US from French occupation. C'est ca!
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