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In 1800, Napoleon Bonaparte won portions of northern Texas as part of his beat-down of Spain in the Napoleonic Wars. But there was hardly time to ship famous French Tricolours to the region before Napoleon sold the Louisiana Territory to Thomas Jefferson for 68,000,000 francs, or about five cents per acre. <ref>“The Louisiana Purchase," ''Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Museum Gazette'', National Park Service, December 1991</ref>
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==Mexico==