re-cede

Updated: May 25, 2025

In 1800 he prevailed upon the Spanish government to re-cede to France the extensive territory called Louisiana lying west of the Mississippi River. Soon afterwards he dispatched his brother-in-law, General Leclerc, with an army of 25,000 men, to make good the French claims to the large island of Haiti. But the colonial ventures of Napoleon ended in failure.

Carlton J. H. Hayes - A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.

In 1800, Napoleon had forced Spain to re-cede Louisiana to France, as the price of the First Consul's uncertain goodwill and other intangible or elusive favors. At this period, France desired to occupy the country, or at least to form a great seaport at New Orleans, the entrepot of the Mississippi, that might be of use to her against English warships in the region of the West Indies.

Edward Sylvester Ellis - Thomas Jefferson, a Character Sketch