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Contents List of Plans and Maps List of Illustrations Foreword, by Marie-Sol de La Tour d’Auvergne Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. From France to the Mississippi Valley Chapter 1. Flight from France Chapter 2. The Ohio River Valley Chapter 3. The Grand Enterprise Chapter 4. At Home in the Illinois Country Chapter 5. The Grand Enterprise Collapses Chapter 6. Americans Recruited Chapter 7. Civil and Military Commandant Chapter 8. End of the Adventure Part II. Source Documents 1. De Luzières to Carondelet, April 30, 1793 2. De Luzières to Carondelet, May 1, 1793 3. Peyroux de la Coudrenière to Carondelet, November 14, 1793 4. Edmund Genêt,“Harangue to the Free French,” 1793 5. De Luzières to Carondelet, December 26, 1793 6.“Account of the Ohio River,” winter 1793–1794 ix xi xiii xvii 1 7 20 31 50 61 73 84 98 116 117 123 127 129 131 viii Contents 7. Trudeau to Carondelet, January 28, 1794 8. Louis Lorimier,“Harangue to Indians,” February 8, 1794 9. De Luzières to Carondelet, April 6, 1794 10. De Luzières to Carondelet, September 17, 1794 11. De Luzières to Carondelet, October 17, 1794 12. Bartholémé Tardiveau to Carondelet, November 27, 1794 13. De Luzières to Carondelet, June 9, 1795 14. De Luzières to Gayoso de Lemos, November 20, 1795 15. De Lassus to Gayoso de Lemos, December 3, 1795 16. Louis Lorimier to Carondelet, December 22, 1795 17. De Luzières,“An Official Account of Louisiana,” 1796 18. De Luzières to Carondelet, August 1, 1796 19. De Luzières to Carondelet, September 19, 1796 20. De Luzières to Carondelet, October 17, 1796 21. François Vallé to Carondelet, November 10, 1796 22. De Luzières to Bartholémé Tardiveau, February 2, 1797 23. De Luzières to Carondelet, June 12, 1797 24. De Luzières to Carondelet, September 21, 1797 25. De Luzières, Passport for Neptune and Jasmin, free blacks, September 27, 1797 26. De Luzières to Carondelet, October 1, 1797 27. De Luzières,“New Bourbon Census,” December 1, 1797 28. De Luzières,“Indians of Various Tribes” 29. De Luzières,“Observations on the White Residents,” December 1, 1797 30. De Luzières to Gayoso de Lemos, December 20, 1797 31. De Luzières to Governor Gayoso de Lemos, March 19, 1798 32. Slave Purchase, February 2, 1799 33. De Luzières,“Memorial to U.S. Congress,” March 29, 1799 34. John Matthews, Oath of Loyalty to Spain, October 17, 1800 35. John Matthews, Real Estate Concession, October 20, 1800 36. De Luzières to de Lassus, April 10, 1804 Index 135 138 139 141 143 145 146 147 148 149 150 153 154 155 157 158 159 160 161 162 164 199 201 215 216 218 219 223 224 225 227 ...

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