Timeline (The Caged Eagle)

1803

 * POD: April- France offers to sell the entire Louisianna Territory to the US for $15 million.  Thomas Jefferson stays true to his beliefs and asks Congress to ratify the purchase.
 * May- French troops are withdrawn from the war in Haiti and hostilities officiallly end there.    War resumes between Britain and France.
 * July-  Congress officially denounces the arrival of French troops from Haiti in New Orleans.  In a close vote Congress rejects the purchase of the Louisianna Territory.  Tensions increase between the two sides.
 * October- Tensions subside as France and the US sign an agreement granting full access of the Mississippi and New Orleans to American merchants and farmers.