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875. BONAPARTE (N.), Louisiana and.—[continued].

Your emperor has done more splendid things, but he has never done
one which will give happiness to so great a
number of human beings as the ceding of
Louisiana to the United States. [52]
To Marquis de Lafayette. Ford ed., ix, 67.
(W. May. 1807)

See Louisiana.

 
[52]

This accession of territory strengthens forever
the power of the United States, and I have just given
to England a maritime rival that will sooner or later
humble her pride.—Napoleon.