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  2. Louisiana Purchase - Wikipedia

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    Louisiana Purchase territory shown as American Indian land in Gratiot's map of the defenses of the western & north-western frontier, 1837. The Louisiana Purchase was negotiated between France and the United States, without consulting the various Indian tribes who lived on the land and who had not ceded the land to any colonial power.

  3. History of slavery in Louisiana - Wikipedia

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    Exhibit inside the Slavery Museum at Whitney Plantation Historic District, St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana. Following Robert Cavelier de La Salle establishing the French claim to the territory and the introduction of the name Louisiana, the first settlements in the southernmost portion of Louisiana (New France) were developed at present-day Biloxi (1699), Mobile (1702), Natchitoches ...

  4. Louisiana in the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    Louisiana was a dominant population center in the southwest of the Confederate States of America, controlling the wealthy trade center of New Orleans, and contributing the French Creole and Cajun populations to the demographic composition of a predominantly Anglo-American country.

  5. List of colonial governors of Louisiana - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the colonial governors of Louisiana, from the founding of the first settlement by the French in 1699 to the territory's acquisition by the United States in 1803. The French and Spanish governors administered a territory which was much larger than the modern U.S. state of Louisiana , comprising Louisiana (New France) and ...

  6. Walter Sullivan - Wikipedia

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    Walter Sullivan (Silent Hill), fictional character from the video game Silent Hill 4: The Room; Walter Francis Sullivan (1928–2012), American Catholic bishop; Walter J. Sullivan (1923–2014), American politician; Walter Sullivan (journalist) (1918–1996), science writer; Walter Sullivan (novelist) (1924–2006), author and literary critic ...

  7. History of New Orleans - Wikipedia

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    The history of New Orleans, Louisiana traces the city's development from its founding by the French in 1718 through its period of Spanish control, then briefly back to French rule before being acquired by the United States in the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. During the War of 1812, the last major battle was the Battle of New Orleans in 1815.

  8. History of Louisiana - Wikipedia

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    Antebellum Louisiana was a leading slave state, where by 1860, 47% of the population was enslaved. Louisiana seceded from the Union on January 26, 1861, joining the Confederate States of America. New Orleans, the largest city in the entire South at the time, and strategically important port city, was taken by Union troops on April 25, 1862.

  9. Walter Sullivan (novelist) - Wikipedia

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    Walter Laurence Sullivan (January 4, 1924 in Nashville, Tennessee – August 15, 2006 in Nashville) [1] was a southern novelist and literary critic. He published a number of works and was an English professor at Vanderbilt University for more than fifty years.