An overview

The history of the present US state of Louisiana started about a thousand years ago when the indigenous people of the area inhabited it. The first permanent settlement is reported back to the archaic period,5500 years ago.Europeans started arriving in the late 1500s.

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It soon became a french colony and was named la Louisiane, after the french king Louis XIV. Spain then occupied Louisiana around the 1770s. The Us proposed the Louisiana purchase treaty in 1803, according to which the area would be divided into two territories, the Orlean territory, and the Louisiana district.

 The largest slave revolt in the history of America took place around 1811, during which more than 500 enslaved people had risen onto the german coast and marched 20 miles in the city. the US troops, along with the help of the citizen militias, had to gather for suppressing the revolt.

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Napoleon vs. The United states

In the san Ildefonso treaty of 1800, Napoleon Bonaparte acquired the territory of Louisiana from Spain. However, He kept this a secret for the next few years since he had ambitions to build a substantial colonial empire in the united states. He failed in his attempt to conquer Saint Domingue and had to withdraw his troops in 1803.

Soon after, Haiti declared its independence, and napoleon had to give up his desire to become the Americanemperor. He sold his territory of Louisiana to the US in the Louisiana Purchase treaty of 1803.

The united states won the battle of New Orleans against Europe, and Louisiana officially became the 18th state of the US ON 30th April 1812. However, the western Louisiana regions were in constant disputes with the Spanish texas till the ratification of the adam onis treaty of 1819.