Feb 19 2025 20 mins 2
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Napoleon, from his bath, angrily threw a snuffbox at his brothers Joseph and Lucien. Worse, a lot of the nice warm bathwater splashed out, right onto Joseph's shoes.....
With the naval armistice of late 1801, Napoleon quickly put together a huge invasion force to retake Haiti.
American food and natural resources, rich exotic crops from Haiti and the Windward Islands, manufactures supplied by France. This was his dream of increasing the 180 million francs a year in revenue for the French government that had been achieved in the 1790s.
But it all came crashing down. The Louisiana Purchase was the way out.
