Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-296) and index.
The new Atlantic France -- The Society for the Cultivation of the Vine and Olive -- Double and treble treachery -- Ultra-quixotism : The Bonapartist invasion of Texas -- The Vine and Olive Colony -- The fate of Vine and Olive -- Appendix : the grantees and their allotments.
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Presents an account of how Napoleonic exiles and French refugees from Europe and the Caribbean joined forces with Latin American insurgents. This book shows that the Napoleonic officers involved in the colony sold their land shares to speculators to finance the invading of the contested Texas borderlands between Spain and the US.
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