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[[File:1200px-Leclerc_Expedition.png|thumbnail|left|250px300px|Leclerc's Haitian Expedition]]
Westerners became very apprehensive about having the more-powerful French in control of New Orleans: President Thomas Jefferson noted, “There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans.” In addition to making military preparations for conflict in the Mississippi Valley, Jefferson sent James Monroe to join Robert Livingston in France to try to purchase New Orleans and West Florida for as much as $10 million. Failing that, they were to attempt to create a military alliance with England.
* Article: [https://history.state.gov/milestones/1801-1829/louisiana-purchase| Louisiana Purchase, 1803]
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