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Napoleon was pleased with the sale of the Louisiana Territory for two reasons. What were the two

reasons.

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There are good reasons to believe that French failure in Santo Domingo (the island of Hispaniola), the imminence of renewed war with Great Britain, and financial stringencies may all have prompted Napoleon in 1803 to offer for sale to the United States the entire Louisiana Territory.

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