NAPOLEON

=NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Author: Balea S.=

Napoleon was born on August 15, 1769. Napoleon became emperor of the French 1769 thru 1821. As there was major controversy over the country who owns New Orleans Napoleon tried to solve it by almost nearly begging in a war in 1802. New Orleans was orginally owned by France however after losing the French and Indian war New Orleans was then turned over to Spain. Spain then created a secret treaty in 1800, Spain then turned Louisiana and the port to France's dominate and powerful leader Napoleon Bonaprte. Napoleon tried and planned to colonize the American terroitory. After the war, the Westerns called for war since they were upset about what has been going on with Spain and France over their land. Later on, Thomas Jefferson offered to buy New Orleans to settle things down. The French asked the United States they would like to buy New Orleans from France.

 **Quote created by Napleon Bonaparte: “I closed the gulf of anarchy and brought order out of chaos. I rewarded merit regardless of birth or wealth, wherever I found it. I abolished feudalism and restored equality to all regardless of religion and before the law. I fought the decrepit monarchies of the Old Regime because the alternative was the destruction of all this. I purified the Revolution.”**

Louisiana purchase happened in the 1800s, it all began when Thomas Jefferson made a deal with Spain since Spain ruled Mexico which then they also owned the Louisiana Territory, Thomas Jefferson bought each acre for nearly a penny.



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