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2 SHARED EVENTSUnited States

Entangled histories

2 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

ONE SPINE OF YEARS · TWO WALLS OF EVENTS · FRA LEFT · USA RIGHT

1. 1754–1763

   French and Indian War

   Britain's victory in the North American theatre of the Seven Years' War expelled France from the continent but left Britain heavily indebted, prompting new colonial taxes.

   War & Rupture · from the United States chronicle · European colonisation and the Thirteen Colonies · REFS 1 — Abraham Lincoln and Emancipation; U.S. History Collections

2. 1803

   Louisiana Purchase

   The United States bought France's Louisiana territory for $15 million, roughly doubling the nation's size and opening the trans-Mississippi West.

   Politics & Power · from the United States chronicle · Revolution and the founding of the Republic · REFS 1 — Lewis and Clark Expedition