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est that has ever occurred in the history of the world. 

 No salutes were fired; no great enthusiasm prevailed in 

 the United States when this treaty was made known. The 

 nation could afford to wait one hundred years for the 

 celebration. But although no noise was made in Amer- 

 ica, the effects of the treaty soon made themselves felt on 

 the other side of the Atlantic. Of the purchase money, 

 $4,750,000 was applied on claims of Americans against 

 France and the other $11,250,000 went into the great war 

 chest of Napoleon, who expended it in the purchase of 

 equipment for his great army. 



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Harness, horses, wagons, clothing, powder, shot, shell, 

 muskets, and cannons were bought with this money, and 

 when the French army started from Boulogne to the fron- 

 tier to meet the Austrian and Russian armies and under 

 the December sun to fight the battle of Austerlitz, every 

 shot that was fired was a voice from the Louisiana Pur- 

 chase. When that battle ended, Napoleon was at the 

 zenith of his martial glory, and Europe was at his feet. 

 When William Pitt heard of the defeat he died of a brok- 

 en heart. But now, after one hundred years, the results 

 of that victory have passed away. Austerlitz has left 

 but little impression upon the world of today. Napo- 

 leon's light went out like an untended watch-fire on the 

 rock of St. Helena, and France was humbled into her nar- 

 row limits once more, but the peaceful results of the Lou- 

 isiana treaty still endure. 



In 1803 France had 27,349,003 inhabitants, among the 

 most prosperous, progressive, and happy that have ever 

 lived. In fertility the Louisiana Purchase is equal or 

 superior to France itself. Longfellow, in Evangeline, 

 describes its soil — 



Smoothly the plowshare runs through the soil as a keel through 

 the water. 



