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==Background==

==Background==

In 1762, the French province of Louisiana included the Ohio and Mississippi valleys and the shore line of the Gulf of Mexico both east and west of the Mississippi. France lost it after the [[French and Indian War]] (Seven Years War) in 1763. The peace treaty gave Spain New Orleans and all the lands west of the Mississippi; the British took the lands east of the Mississippi.<ref>In 1763 the British also took control of Florida from Spain; in 1783 the British returned East Florida and West Florida to Spain.</ref> By 1800 [[Napoleon]],  with dreams of a new French Empire in the Caribbean, sensed the strategic importance of Louisiana and decided to take it from Spain.  By the Treaty of San Ildefonso, Oct. 1, 1800, and the Convention of Aranjuez, Mar. 21, 1801, Napoleon acquired Louisiana for France in return for placing the son-in-law of the Spanish king on the newly erected throne of Etruria.  

In 1762, the French province of Louisiana included the Ohio and Mississippi valleys and the shore line of the Gulf of Mexico both east and west of the Mississippi. France lost it after the [[French and Indian War]] (Seven Years' War) in 1763. The peace treaty gave Spain New Orleans and all the lands west of the Mississippi; the British took the lands east of the Mississippi.<ref>In 1763 the British also took control of Florida from Spain; in 1783 the British returned East Florida and West Florida to Spain.</ref> By 1800 [[Napoleon]],  with dreams of a new French Empire in the Caribbean, sensed the strategic importance of Louisiana and decided to take it from Spain.  By the Treaty of San Ildefonso, Oct. 1, 1800, and the Convention of Aranjuez, Mar. 21, 1801, Napoleon acquired Louisiana for France in return for placing the son-in-law of the Spanish king on the newly erected throne of Etruria.  

==American fears==

==American fears==