4. Napoleon Bonaparte dreamed of creating a Caribbean empire based in Saint Domingue and using the Louisiana territory as its breadbasket.
5. French hopes of creating a Caribbean empire were dashed when French soldiers dispatched to Saint Domingue, or Haiti, were unable to squash the rebellion originally led by Toussaint L’Ouverture.
6. Jefferson dispatched James Monroe and Robert R. Livingston to negotiate the purchase of Louisiana from France.
7. The chief negotiator for France was the Foreign Minister, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord.
8. Letter to Secretary of State James Madison announcing the purchase of the Louisiana territory from France (1803).
9. French Exchange copy of the Louisiana Purchase Treaty--Convention for Payment of Sums Due by France to U. S. (Cover)
10. After purchasing Louisiana, President Jefferson commissioned Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore and chart the newly acquired territory.
11. Sacajawea was a Shoshone Indian woman who acted as a guide on the Lewis & Clark expedition.
