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BATON ROUGE, La. ( Louisiana First) — A new exhibit commemorating the Louisiana Purchase was unveiled inside the Old State Capitol on Wednesday, April 29.

The Louisiana Purchase in 1803 was a landmark agreement in which the United States acquired vast territory from France for $15 million. The deal added about 828,000 square miles and roughly doubled ...

The Louisiana Purchase nearly doubled the size of the United States and the cost of about four cents an acre was a breathtaking bargain. The Granger Collection, New York UNDERSTANDABLY, Pierre Clément ...

Napoleon Bonaparte's signature was scribbled diagonally on the treaty as if it were an afterthought. Make no mistake, it was far from a haphazard gesture. Bonaparte needed the money, and Thomas ...

U.S. envoys sent to Paris to conclude a modest deal to solve a pressing problem instead struck a historic agreement that set the United States on the road to becoming a world power. A map of the ...

At the end of a two-mile, heavily wooded road in the Delta is one of the last headwater swamps in America and home to a variety of endangered animals, rare swamp cottonwood and the site where ...

LOUISIANA PURCHASE STATE PARK — One of Arkansas' most secluded state parks, marking a location that played a key role in mapping America's westward expansion, is newly improved to provide a sharper ...

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The Louisiana Purchase changed the trajectory of U.S. expansion in the beginning of the 19th century, allowing the size of the country to grow by 530,000,000 acres. And at only a cost to the U.S. of ...