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A Straight Deal

CHAPTER X: Jackstraws
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Bonaparte, instead of establishing an outpost of autocracy at New Orleans, sold to us not only the small piece of land which we had originally in mind, but the huge piece of land whose dimensions I have given above.

We paid him fifteen millions for nearly a million square miles.

The formal transfer was made on December 17 of that same year, 1803.

There is my second jackstraw.
Thus, twenty years after the first time in 1783, Great Britain stood between us and the designs of another nation.

To that other nation her fleet was the deciding obstacle.


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