Napoleon gave up on thoughts of restoring the empire and sold the Louisiana territory to Madison and Jefferson in 1803.

Napoleon, Jefferson, Madison, and the members of Congress all knew this during the debates about the purchase in 1803.

The poems achieved international success ( Napoleon and Thomas Jefferson were great fans ) and were proclaimed as a Celtic equivalent of the Classical writers such as Homer.

At Jefferson's request, Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, a French nobleman who had close ties with both Jefferson and Napoleon, also helped negotiate the purchase with France.

Historians differ in their assessments as to who was the principal player in the purchase ; the Jefferson biographer Peterson notes a range of opinion among those who credit Napoleon, or others who credit Jefferson, his secretary of state James Madison, and his negotiator James Monroe.

The historian George Herring has said that while the purchase was somewhat the result of Jefferson and Madison's " shrewd and sometimes belligerent diplomacy ", that it " is often and rightly regarded as a diplomatic windfall — the result of accident, luck, and the whim of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Thomas Jefferson referred to the tyranny of King George III of Great Britain in the Declaration of Independence, and the concept was refined in turn to refer to the Kings of France, the tyrants of the Terror, and to Napoleon I in turn during the French Revolution and subsequent regimes.

The Louisiana Purchase from Napoleon, in 1803 opened vast Western expanses of fertile land, that exactly met the needs of the rapidly expanding population of yeomen farmers whom Jefferson championed.

When Napoleon sought to sell the French territory of Louisiana to the United States in 1802, President Jefferson was concerned over the political consequences of acquiring a large tract of what was perceived then as predominantly southern territory, as well as a possible lack of constitutional authority to make the purchase.

Jefferson discovered that Napoleon was willing to sell the entire territory to help fund his wars in Europe.

A political cartoon appeared in Harper's Weekly on September 1, 1864 depicting Lincoln on a tightrope, pushing a wheelbarrow and carrying two men on his back-Navy Secretary Gideon Welles and War Secretary Edwin Stanton-while John Bull, Napoleon III, Jefferson Davis, and Generals Grant, Lee and Sherman, among others, looked on.

Jefferson was unaware, however, that the secret Treaty of San Ildefonso had ceded control of Louisiana to the French dictator Napoleon Bonaparte in 1800, although a formal transfer had not yet been made.

After the British burned the Library of Congress in 1814 Jefferson offered to sell his collection of more than six thousand books to Congress for about four dollars a book.

After being checked by the doctor a family member and a friend offered words of hope that he was looking better to which Jefferson impatiently replied .. Do not imagine for a moment that I feel the smallest solicitude as to the result " at which point he calmly gave directions for his funeral, forbidding any sort of celebration or parade.

Smith's slaying led to occupation of Jefferson by military troops who offered protection for the black majority.

The house was offered to them by George Jefferson, the Bunkers ' former neighbor, who knows it will irritate Archie.

Lafayette boasted in 1792 that he had become an American citizen before the French Revolution created the concept of French citizenship, and in 1803 and 1804, President Jefferson offered to make him Governor of Louisiana.

During the Jefferson administration, Macon was offered the post of postmaster general at least twice, but he declined.

His request was denied by the Confederate War Department, but Jefferson Davis offered Hindman a leave of absence until he had fully recovered from his " physical disability ".

He had done nothing to foster good relations with the newly independent United States: both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson complained of his obstructive attitude and " aversion to having anything to do with us ". Subsequently he took little part in politics: in 1792, hearing rumours that a new coalition might be formed, he unwisely offered himself as its head and met with a firm rebuff from both Pitt and the King.

Jefferson offered his students something new: the freedom to chart their own courses of study rather than mandate a fixed curriculum for all students.

President Jefferson offered him the Navy Department in 1806, but Preble declined appointment due to his poor health.

At the end of August 1861, Lee was offered and accepted the position of aide-de-camp to Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

Monroe ’ s longtime friend and political mentor Thomas Jefferson offered many design suggestions.

When Jefferson ran into Hamilton at President Washington's residence in New York City in late June 1790, Jefferson offered to host a dinner to bring Madison and Hamilton together.

Moreover, there are several dual-credit classes offered on campus, and many students walk to Jefferson Community and Technical College for additional tuition-free college courses.

As a pendant to his 1960 monograph, he published Jefferson and Civil Liberties: The Darker Side in 1963 ; this book offered a vigorous critique of Thomas Jefferson for holding narrower views of freedom of speech and press than has long been believed.

Along with the Thomas Jefferson Medal in Law, the awards are the highest outside honors offered by the University, which does not grant honorary degrees.

From his Virginia plantation he offered Jefferson excuses as to why he could not write a reply, including that he didn't have the necessary books and papers to refute " Pacificus ", that the summer heat was " oppressive ", and that he had many houseguests who were wearing out their welcome.

He was released from Libby Prison early in 1864 when the Union Agent for Prisoner Exchange offered a personal friend of Jefferson Davis as barter.

Jefferson offered one of the earliest formulations of the sentiment, although not of the phrase.

Responding to school needs, the city offered part of this property to the Jefferson County School Board, and in 1968 a school was built for 7th and 8th graders-today known as Louis Pizitz Middle School.

When Thomas Jefferson offered him the post of Surveyor General, Ellicott turned him down.

On November 11, 2006 the Board of Trustees at Thomas Jefferson University agreed to sell The Gross Clinic to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C., and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas for a record $ 68, 000, 000, the highest price for an Eakins painting as well as a record price for an individual American-made portrait.

Jefferson was at this time one of the largest and busiest riverports west of the Mississippi River, and it is possible Rothschild might have thought he could sell some of Bessie's diamonds there.

New Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) regulations forced CBS to sell the station to Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company, forerunner of Jefferson-Pilot, in 1945, though it remained a CBS affiliate.

Team President Stan Kasten also said that the team might sell the naming rights to the levels of the luxury suites, which currently bear the names of presidents Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln.

His political opponent and lifetime friend, Thomas Jefferson, achieved immortality through his authorship of the Declaration of Independence, but equally notable were the legal and constitutional reforms he instituted in his native Virginia, his role as father of our territorial system, and his acquisition of the Louisiana Territory during his first term as President.

In purchasing Louisiana, Jefferson had to adopt Hamilton's broad construction of the Constitution, and so did Madison in advocating the rechartering of Hamilton's bank, which he had so strenuously opposed at its inception, and in adopting a Hamiltonian protective tariff.

He was educated at Transylvania University in Lexington, where his classmates included five future Democratic senators ( Solomon Downs of Louisiana, Jesse Bright of Indiana, George W. Jones of Iowa, Edward Hannegan of Indiana, and Jefferson Davis of Mississippi ).

As Jefferson ’ s Secretary of State ( 1801 – 1809 ), Madison supervised the Louisiana Purchase, which doubled the nation ’ s size.

President Jefferson sent Monroe to France to assist Robert R. Livingston to negotiate the Louisiana Purchase.

Jefferson also placed special importance on declaring U. S. sovereignty over the Native Americans along the Missouri River, and getting an accurate sense of the resources in the recently completed Louisiana Purchase.

The purchase of the territory of Louisiana took place during the presidency of Thomas Jefferson.

In hindsight, the Louisiana Purchase could be considered one of Thomas Jefferson ’ s greatest contributions to the United States.

Jefferson sent Livingston to Paris in 1801 after discovering the transfer of Louisiana from Spain to France under the Third Treaty of San Ildefonso.

Jefferson disliked the idea of purchasing Louisiana from France, as that could imply that France had a right to be in Louisiana.

The original handwritten proclamation signed by President Thomas Jefferson and Secretary of State James Madison, that informed the American public of the landmark deal of the Louisiana Purchase, was acquired in 1996 by Walter Scott Jr. of Omaha, Nebraska, who holds it in his private collection.

Elected president in what Jefferson called the Revolution of 1800, he oversaw the purchase of the vast Louisiana Territory from France ( 1803 ), and sent the Lewis and Clark Expedition ( 1804 – 1806 ) to explore the new west.

In 1803 in the midst of the Napoleonic wars between France and Britain, Thomas Jefferson authorized the Louisiana Purchase, a major land acquisition from France that doubled the size of the United States.

In 1804 Jefferson appointed Meriwether Lewis and William Clark as leaders of the expedition ( 1804 – 1806 ), which explored the Louisiana Territory and beyond, producing a wealth of scientific and geographical knowledge, and ultimately contributing to the European-American settlement of the West.

In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson obtained from France the Louisiana Purchase for fifteen million dollars ( equivalent to about $ 230 million today ) which included all the land drained by the Missouri River and roughly doubled the size of U. S. territory.

It was built with proceeds from the fair, to commemorate Thomas Jefferson, who initiated the Louisiana Purchase, as was the first memorial to the third President.

Orange County is the county in the very southeastern corner of Texas, with a boundary with Louisiana but does not have a seacoast on the Gulf of Mexico as Jefferson County and Sabine Lake border Orange County to the South.

Orange County is bordered on its east by the Sabine River-the border with Louisiana, on its southeast by Sabine Lake, on its west by Jefferson County-its parent county, and on its north by three different counties of Texas.

* Jefferson Parish, Louisiana

* Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana

The entrance hall contains recreations of items collected by Lewis and Clark on the cross-country expedition commissioned by Jefferson to explore the Louisiana Purchase.

After the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, President Thomas Jefferson and his successors viewed much of the land west of the Mississippi River as a place to resettle the native Americans, so that white settlers would be free to live in the lands east of the river.

* Jefferson, Louisiana