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Purchase, Conquest and Oblivion: the First Expansion of the United States Was Thanks to Haiti
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Roberto Bissio At a time when President Donald Trump announces his intention to buy or conquer by force Greenland, without having renounced his claim to make Canada the 51st State of the Union, it is worth remembering the story of the first major purchase of territory by the United States. In 1803 James Monroe, special envoy of President Thomas Jefferson to Paris, bought the Louisiana for $15 million from Napoleon... who had no right to sell it.
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