Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 1074
o hold Louisianaagainst the United States, asthere was likely to be war and theUnited States would surely win.It had been Napoleons idea tobuild upon this continent a na-tion which would beat Englandon the seas; and so far as I knowit has : but he thought of buildinga French colonial empire here.… … io44 ST. NICHOLAS LEAGUE. [Sept. and even sent Monroe to his aid. Napoleon not onlyoffered to sell New Orleans, but all of Louisiana, for$15,000,000; for lie was a great statesman and a stillgreater soldier, and he saw that no matter how largehis army might be, he could not hold land to which hehad…
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