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Napoleon and agreed
The Americans thought that Napoleon might withdraw the offer at any time, preventing the United States from acquiring New Orleans, so they agreed and signed the Louisiana Purchase Treaty on April 30, 1803.
At the Congress of Erfurt ( September – October 1808 ), Napoleon and Alexander agreed that Russia should force Sweden to join the Continental System, which led to the Finnish War of 1808 – 09 and to the division of Sweden into two parts separated by the Gulf of Bothnia.
Cavour and Napoleon III agreed to a joint war against Austria.
Napoleon III agreed to recognize the Piedmontese annexation in exchange for Savoy and Nice.
He negotiated the removal of the French troops from Rome through a treaty, the September Convention, with Napoleon III in September 1864, by which the emperor agreed to withdraw his troops within two years.
Under the terms of a peace treaty signed in Vienna on October 12, Emperor Franz Joseph had already agreed to cede Venetia to Napoleon III in exchange for non-intervention in the Austro-Prussian War and thus Napoleon III ceded Venetia to Italy on October 19 in exchange for the earlier Italian acquiescence to the French annexation of Savoy and Nice.
On behalf of the Allies, Austria agreed to send a force to the Kingdom of Naples to depose Murat in February 1815, when it became apparent that Murat corresponded with Napoleon I, which was explicitly forbidden by a recent treaty.
Napoleon felt secure in the presumption that the war with Austria would be drawn out, or would result in Austrian victory, when he agreed not to intervene in 1864.
At the time of the attack on Copenhagen, Denmark was neutral but Napoleon had recently agreed with the Russians in the Treaty of Tilsit to build a naval alliance against Britain, including using the Danish navy for invading Britain.
Following Bautzen, Napoleon agreed to a seven-week truce with the Coalition, requested by the Allies on 2 June 1813, the armistice ( Armistice of Pleischwitz ) was signed on 4 June, and lasted until 20 July, but later extended to 16 August.
The public terms of Tilsit mentioned the warm feelings between Napoleon and Alexander I of Russia, but the secret terms addressed more substantial issues: France permitted Russia to do as it wished with the Ottoman Empire in return for France gaining the Dalmatian coast and the Ionian Islands ; Russia gained a free hand in Finland ; and Alexander also agreed to join the Continental System if the war with Britain did not end soon.
With the Treaty of Ried of 8 October 1813 Bavaria left the Confederation of the Rhine and agreed to join the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon in exchange for a guarantee of her continued sovereign and independent status.
Peace talks had started on 9 May between Talleyrand, who negotiated for the exiled Bourbon king Louis XVIII of France, and the allies of Chaumont, who had agreed to reduce France to her 1792 borders and restore the independence of her neighbors after Napoleon Bonaparte's defeat.
While the terms of the Treaty were the bare minimum that the British government could accept, Napoleon Bonaparte would not have agreed to any terms more favourable to the British, and the British government had reached a state of financial collapse, owing to war expenditure, the loss of Continental markets for British goods, and two successive failed harvests that had led to widespread famine and social unrest, rendering peace a necessity.
Due to the Austrian government's refusal to cede any lands to the Kingdom of Sardinia, they agreed to cede Lombardy to Napoleon who in turn then ceded the territory to the Kingdom of Sardinia to avoid ' embarrassing ' the defeated Austrians.
On 11 December, a beleaguered and desperate Napoleon agreed to a separate peace with Spain under the Treaty of Valençay, under which he would release and recognize Ferdinand VII as King of Spain in exchange for a complete cessation of hostilities.
The preliminary peace of Villafranca, agreed to between Napoleon III and Franz Joseph on 11 July, provided for the return of the Lorraines to Florence, but Leopold himself was seen as too unpopular to be accepted, so on 21 July 1859 he abdicated the throne in favour of his son, Ferdinand.
" As the king felt that her presence might put Napoleon in a " more relaxed mood "; Louise reluctantly agreed to meet the emperor at Tilsit, but only to save " her Prussia ".
Following French Emperor Napoleon I's victory at the Battle of Jena and the ensuing evacuation by Prussia of her Polish provinces, in November 1806 Poniatowski was asked by the Prussian king Frederick William III to assume the governorship of Warsaw, to which he agreed ; he also assumed the command of the city's municipal guard and citizen militia forces organized by local residents.
In November 1799, Lefebvre commanded the Paris troops and reluctantly agreed to support Napoleon Bonaparte in his coup d ' état.
With the help of Emilio, marquis Visconti-Venosta he concluded ( September 15, 1864 ) the September Convention with France, whereby Napoleon III agreed to evacuate Rome, and Italy to transfer her capital from Turin to Florence.
At the Congress of Erfurt ( September – October 1808 ) Napoleon and Alexander agreed that Russia should force Sweden to join the Continental System, which led to the Finnish War of 1808 – 1809 ( meaning Sweden played no role in the next coalition against Napoleon ) and to the division of Sweden into two parts separated by the Gulf of Bothnia.
In March 1802, France ( now under Napoleon, as First Consul ) and Great Britain, its one remaining enemy, agreed to end hostilities under the Treaty of Amiens.

Napoleon and sell
( Musseli told friends she had not wanted to sell her home, but that Lerner urged her to cut her ties with her native city and that she entrusted Lerner with the proceeds of the sale, for investment in the U. S .) The daughter of a World War One French war hero and herself an unsung heroine of the Resistance, whose Corsican forebears were intimates of Napoleon Bonaparte, she later made Lerner the gift of a chateau in France after he declared to her that he wanted a French rural retreat where he could write.
Out of anger against Spain and the unique opportunity to sell something that was useless and not truly his yet, Napoleon decided to sell the entire territory.
One problem, however, was too important to argue down convincingly: Napoleon did not have the right to sell Louisiana to the United States.
William III, king of the Netherlands, which still had sovereignty over Luxembourg, was willing to sell the grand duchy to France's Emperor Napoleon III in order to retain Limbourg but backed out when Prussian chancellor Otto von Bismarck expressed opposition.
Napoleon offered to sell the entire Territory for a price of $ 15 million, which Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin financed easily.
France regained control of Louisiana through the secret Treaty of San Ildefonso in 1800 but Napoleon Bonaparte I decided to sell the territory to the United States in 1803.
Napoleon, having realized that his plans could not come to fruition, offered to sell the United States the entire territory of Louisiana, including Craighead County, for $ 23, 213, 568.
A Franco-Spanish alliance treaty returned Louisiana to France in 1801, allowing Napoleon Bonaparte to sell it to the United States in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803.
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.
Similarly, as a result of debts incurred fighting the slave revolt, Napoleon was forced to sell the American government its territories in Louisiana at a heavily discounted price.
The writer was known, and it was in this connection that Napoleon referred to him as a " wretched scribe named Gentz, one of those men without honor who sell themselves for money ".
As Jefferson deliberated, Napoleon unexpectedly offered to sell Louisiana to the United States for approximately $ 15 million.

Napoleon and Louisiana
From the time of Napoleon and building the Louisiana road, the road transport in Croatia has significantly improved, topping most European countries.
To concentrate on the war in Europe, Napoleon signed the Louisiana Purchase in April, selling France's North American possessions to the United States.
A brief interlude of peace ensued in 1802-3, during which Napoleon sold French Louisiana to the United States because it was indefensible.
Napoleon gave up on thoughts of restoring the empire and sold the Louisiana territory to Madison and Jefferson in 1803.
Napoleon Bonaparte had gained Louisiana for French ownership from Spain in 1800 under the Treaty of San Ildefonso, after being a Spanish colony since 1762.
Southerners feared that Napoleon would free all the slaves in Louisiana, which could trigger slave uprisings elsewhere.
He engaged in back-channel diplomacy with Napoleon on Jefferson's behalf during a visit to France and originated the idea of the much larger Louisiana Purchase as a way to defuse potential conflict between the United States and Napoleon over North America.
Napoleon needed peace with Great Britain to implement the Treaty of San Ildefonso and take possession of Louisiana.
Although the foreign minister Talleyrand opposed the plan, on April 10, 1803, Napoleon told the Treasury Minister François de Barbé-Marbois that he was considering selling the entire Louisiana Territory to the United States.
** United States doubles its size with territories gained from Napoleon Bonaparte in the Louisiana Purchase.
In general, the tribes ceded land they occupied in exchange for Land Grants in an area purchased by the US Federal Government from Napoleon, the Louisiana Purchase.
After the fall of Napoleon, not only was Napoleonic Code retained by many such countries including the Netherlands, Belgium, parts of Italy and Germany, but has also been used as the basis of certain parts of law outside Europe including the Dominican Republic, the US state of Louisiana and the Canadian province of Quebec.
L ' Overture wound up being imprisoned by Napoleon in a remote mountain jail, dying of starvation and neglect, while his army continued in liberating Saint Domingue, concurrently with Napoleon's Louisiana Purchase for his French King.
In 1800, France reacquired Louisiana from Spain, and in 1803, Napoleon Bonaparte I sold it to the United States as the Louisiana Purchase.
Napoleon maintained grandiose plans to establish a vast French Empire in Louisiana but the Royal Navy prevented him from transferring troops or settlers to the acquired territories.
Napoleon Bonaparte returned Louisiana to French control from Spain in 1800, under the Treaty of San Ildefonso ( Louisiana had been a Spanish colony since 1762.
The area, inhabited first by the Adais ( Brushwood ) Indians of the Caddo Confederacy, was first under Spanish rule, then French, English, Spanish again, and French when Napoleon sold it to the United States in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803.
Spain returned its portion of Louisiana to France in 1800, but French leader Napoleon Bonaparte sold it to the United States in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, permanently ending French colonial efforts on the American mainland.

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