Napoleon needed money for his army and he knew the United States had great need of a river port on the Gulf of Mexico. Louisiana is a long way from France . It would be difficult and expensive for France to defend. He probably figured that if France did not sell it now, they might end up with nothing for it later.
Barbe-Marbois felt that Napoleans should sell Louisiana because it was hard to defend such a large territory. He also thought it would cost more to defend than it would make from it's profits.
Toussaint L' Ouverture
It killed many of Napoleans army and without Hati and no Army Napolan desided to sell the teritory.
In 1803, US President Thomas Jefferson reached an agreement with Napoleon, to purchase from France the so-called Louisiana Territory. This became known as the Louisiana Purchase and almost doubled the size of the US.
Waterloo
he f*"& them up
i guess means your mom
The most likely reason is that there is oil in Louisiana. Additionally it is much more level
He needed the cash and it created problems for the British.
Whatever Napoleons dream of colonial empire may have been, the uprising in San Domingo [Haiti] cheked the occupation of the claimed territory; and later the later the imminence of another war with Great Britain compelled the sale of Louisiana to prevent it from falling into the hands of the enemy.
The main reason the Louisiana territory was sold to the US was because the seller, France was broke following recent war expenses. The Louisiana Territory roughly encompassed 13 central and western states, from Louisiana to Montana.
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