The Louisiana Purchase
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Imagine that 30,000 troops of the powerful French Army were in transit to North America with ideas of conquest. The United States Army had only 3,000 troops. Join Bill to discover what happened!
Enjoy the story of how the United States came to purchase about 828,000 square miles of land for only $15 million. The area had been claimed by France, gifted to Spain, and transferred back to France by the time the U.S. seized an opportunity to make a deal. Thomas Jefferson took quite a risk. It was a deal that doubled the size of the U.S. and sparked the country's westward growth. This event also impacted the incredible U.S. government expedition to explore the west - the journey led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark.
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