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Preferred term

Louisiana territory  

Synonym(s)

  • COLONIAL LOUISIANA
  • LOUISIANA COLONY
  • LOUISIANA, PROVINCE OF
  • PROVINCE OF LOUISIANA

Scope note

  • the land acquired by Thomas Jefferson from France as the Louisiana Purchase, 1803; extended from the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Lakes, and from the Allegheny and Ohio valleys to the Rocky Mountains; parts of the territory had also been held by Spain and England

Notation

  • 22357

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/45G-X5LP1KFT-4

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