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    The Louisiana Purchase (French: Vente de la Louisiane, lit. 'Sale of Louisiana') was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States...
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    2024. Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de (1781). "Le Vanneau armé de la Louisiane". Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux (in French). Vol. 15. Paris: De L'Imprimerie...
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    settlement was under the direction of Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville. La Louisiane was separated from Spanish Florida at the Perdido River near Pensacola...
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    Dictionary of Americanisms on Historical Principles (1951) by Mitford M. Mathews include the following: Dixie may be derived from Jeremiah Dixon, one of...
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    Mississippi River, and Illinois was part of first New France, and then of La Louisiane until 1763, when it passed to the British with their defeat of France...
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    2008), 95. Mack E. Barham, "La méthodologie du droit civil de l'État de Louisiane", Revue internationale de droit comparé 27(4) (1975): 800. Known in French...
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    Mississippi and Des Moines Rivers. Iowa was part of a territory known as La Louisiane or Louisiana, and European traders were interested in lead and furs obtained...
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  • turn to the Virginia colonies. By 1625, Wood worked for Captain Samuel Mathews and lived at Jamestown. He filed several land claims for areas on the lower...
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    Retrieved March 5, 2013. Delisle, Guillaume (1718), 1718 Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississipi Pike, Zebulon (1895). Coues, Elliott (ed.)....
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    claimed to be working with Whitefish Energy, and that their boat the "Louisiane" would serve as "headquarters for relief services" after Hurricane Maria...
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