these orders Shall be payable Sixty days after the exchange of ratifications of the Treaty and the Conventions Signed this day, and after possession Shall be given of Louisiana by the Commissaries ...

President Donald Trump has refused to rule out military coercion to acquire Greenland and the Panama Canal, and he suggested ...

President Thomas Jefferson purchased the Louisiana territory from France. The acquisition from the French Republic consisted of most of the land in the Mississippi River's drainage basin west ...

That’s pretty much the Louisiana Purchase in a nutshell ... Within 24 hours, Spain became the new owner of Louisiana in a secret treaty known as San Ildefonso. Then Spain gave Louisiana back ...