Louisiana Purchase, 1803

Color enhanced lithograph made from a Victor Adams painting shows Napoleon, who was not present at the signing, formally presenting a copy of the Treaty to the American Commissioners. The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition by the United States of 828, 000 square miles of France's claim to the territory of Louisiana

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1803 Acquisition Barbe Commissioners Livingston Louisiana Purchase

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