"The Bittersweet Victory at Saint-Domingue" Topic
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Tango01  | 10 Jun 2023 9:00 p.m. PST |
"In 1800, French traveler Pierre-Louis Duvallon prophesized that New Orleans was "destined by nature to become one of the principal cities of North America, and perhaps the most important place of commerce in the new world." Projectors, visionaries, and investors who came to this city founded by the French in 1718 and ceded to the Spanish in 1763 could sense the same tremendous possible future.
Yet powerful empires had been determined to keep the city from the United States ever since the 13 colonies achieved their independence. Between 1783 and 1804, Spain repeatedly revoked the right of American settlers further upriver to export their products through New Orleans. Each time they did so, western settlers began to think about shifting their allegiances. Worried U.S. officials repeatedly tried to negotiate the sale and cession of the city near the Mississippi's mouth, but Spain, trying to protect its own empire by containing the new nation's growth, just as repeatedly rebuffed them…"
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