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The formal transfer of ownership of Upper Louisiana from Spain to the French First Republic, and then from France to the United States, March 10, 1804
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The formal transfer of ownership of Upper Louisiana from Spain to the French First Republic, and then from France to the United States, March 10, 1804. This act finalized the Louisiana Purchase, the acquisition of the Louisiana territory (828,000 square miles) by the United States from France in 1803. From The History of Our Country, published 1900.