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    What if France reclaimed Louisiana from Spain in July 1795 Treaty of Basel instead of the Treaty of San Ildefonso of October 1800?

    Well, I'm just saying that it's always useful to think long-term, you know? The US's population center of gravity was already moving west by 1800, though I don't know just how clear this actually was to contemporaries who lacked modern methods of statistical analysis:
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    What if France reclaimed Louisiana from Spain in July 1795 Treaty of Basel instead of the Treaty of San Ildefonso of October 1800?

    Yep, which is why I found it interesting that in real life the US initially only offered to buy New Orleans and the surrounding territories from France. What did the US think that France was going to do with the rest of Louisiana? Sell it back to Spain? Sell it to Britain?
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    What if France reclaimed Louisiana from Spain in July 1795 Treaty of Basel instead of the Treaty of San Ildefonso of October 1800?

    If the US gets New Orleans, then France would be compelled to sell the rest of Louisiana to the US as well due to France becoming isolated from the rest of Louisiana, right?
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