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I want my money back.

6 March 2010 4 views No Comment

In 1803 the United States paid France 15 million dollars for 828,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River known as the Louisiana Territory. This price includes 9 dollars for the area of New Orleans that we now call the “French Quarter.”

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