US state

Usage examples of louisiana.

Were it not for John Adams making peace with France, there might never have been a Louisiana Purchase.

Louisiana Territory north of latitude 36 degrees 30 minutes--left Adams in torment over the future.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR ROBERT CRAIS was born in Louisiana but now lives in the Santa Monica mountains with his family and an Akita guard dog.

Louisiana but now lives in the Santa Monica mountains with his family and an Akita guard dog.

They looked like the portraits in the hotel lobby of famous antebellum Creoles, descendants of the early French and Spanish settlers in Louisiana.

Louisiana loup-garou in hundreds of years to see Apollonius is Achille.

There were a couple of joints on the state line down by Louisiana that made those along the Biloxi strip seem like kindergarten.

Forrest had bagged a whole band near Catahoula, Louisiana, and hanged all thirty-one men.

Before the meeting of the caucus of January 5, 1861, South Carolina had seceded, and Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Louisiana, and Texas had taken the initial step of secession, by calling conventions for its accomplishment.

And now de whole world was eatin Louisiana cookin, Blackened Redfish, Red Snapper, Crawfish etouffee, all dat stuff in dem bays yeah.

French fur traders, cast out of the western forts and now roaming the wilds, fanned the flame, gave presents of gunpowder and firearms to the savages, and egged the hostiles on against the new possessors of Canada, in order to divert the fur trade to French traders still in Louisiana.

Louisiana industry was gossamer tidbits of apocryphal tales spun into the mainstream of the mega-millions that those Gashouses of refineries made.

In Shreveport, the headquarters of the Confederate Army of the West, Lieutenant General Kirby Smith, the third of that auspicious surname to be involved, worried and fretted, but could not release General Taylor and his thin Louisiana division to the attack until the scattered grayback Army of the West could be collected from its far-flung posts and concentrated against the advancing Union Army.

There is some reason to suppose they came thither originally from the Greater Antilles, and none to doubt but that the Huastecas who lived on the river Panuco and the Natchez of Louisiana were offshoots from them.

During the brief interval of peace following the treaty of Amiens in 1801, Napoleon undertook the reestablishment of French power in Santo Domingo as the first step in the development of a colonial empire which he determined upon when he forced Spain to retrocede Louisiana to France by the secret treaty of San Ildefonso in 1800.