How did France get Louisiana Territory from Spain?
Napoleon Bonaparte, leader of the Republic of France in 1793, planned a new French empire in the Americas with Louisiana as its centerpiece. In 1800, he forced Spain to return Louisiana at the secret Treaty of San Ildefonso.
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