"Bonapartists in the Borderlands: French Exiles and..." Topic
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Tango01 | 12 Oct 2016 3:16 p.m. PST |
… Refugees on the Gulf Coast, 1815-1835. "Bonapartists in the Borderlands recounts how Napoleonic exiles and French refugees from Europe and the Caribbean joined forces with Latin American insurgents, Gulf pirates, and international adventurers to seek their fortune in the Gulf borderlands. The U.S. Congress welcomed the French to America and granted them a large tract of rich Black Belt land near Demopolis, Alabama, on the condition that they would establish a Mediterranean-style Vine and Olive colony. This book debunks the standard account of the colony, which stresses the failure of the aristocratic, luxury-loving French to tame the wilderness. Instead, it shows that the Napoleonic officers involved in the colony sold their land shares to speculators to finance an even more perilous adventure--invading the contested Texas borderlands between Spain and the U.S. Their departure left the Vine and Olive colony in the hands of French refugees from the Haitian slave revolt. While they soon abandoned vine cultivation, they successfully recast themselves as prosperous, slaveholding cotton growers and gradually fused into a new elite with newly arrived Anglo-American planters…"
See here link Amicalement Armand |
Tom D1 | 13 Oct 2016 12:29 p.m. PST |
So John Wayne's "The Fighting Kentuckian" had an historic basis? Gotta get that book. |
Tango01 | 13 Oct 2016 10:43 p.m. PST |
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