3-069-845 - LTL/Heritage Images

Allegorical illustration depicting the sale of Louisiana by Napoleon I to the United States for 15 million dollars, 1803, (1851). Spain had ceded Louisiana to France on condition that it would be returned if the French government would part with it. France sold it without respecting the treaty with Spain. In December 1803 France transferred authority over the region to the United States. From "Historia del Levantamiento, guerra y revolución de España" (History of the Spanish Uprising, War and Revolution) by the Conde de Toreno, Madrid, 1851.