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==American fears==

==American fears==

Rumors of this secret retrocession from Spain to France reached the United States, causing apprehension of possible encirclement. President Jefferson said that America was faced with the prospect of "marrying the British fleet and nation" (that is, becoming an ally of Britain in the large-scale wars underway between Britain and France) as an offset to this new French empire in the heart of the continent.  Livingston and special envoy [[James Monroe]] in Paris plied the French with arguments for a deal with the United States as they strove to buy just the coastal areas of New Orleans and West Florida. In the final decision to sell the whole province of Louisiana to the Americans, Napoleon was influenced by the imminent renewal of war with Britain, when Louisiana might be lost anyway, and the consequent need for money as well as by the failure of his Haitian campaign, where his invasion army had been destroyed by disease. Napoleon's chief goal was to strengthen the United States as a counter-weight to Britain.  

Rumors of this secret retrocession from Spain to France reached the United States, causing apprehension of possible encirclement. President Jefferson said that America was faced with the prospect of "marrying the British fleet and nation" (that is, becoming an ally of Britain in the large-scale wars underway between Britain and France) as an offset to this new French empire in the heart of the continent.  [[Robert R. Livingston]] and special envoy [[James Monroe]] in Paris plied the French with arguments for a deal with the United States as they strove to buy just the coastal areas of New Orleans and West Florida. In the final decision to sell the whole province of Louisiana to the Americans, Napoleon was influenced by the imminent renewal of war with Britain, when Louisiana might be lost anyway, and the consequent need for money as well as by the failure of his Haitian campaign, where his invasion army had been destroyed by disease. Napoleon's chief goal was to strengthen the United States as a counter-weight to Britain.

==Treaty==

==Treaty==