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| Previous Hispanola: A new mulatto insurrection begins in the South Province. October 1806 the Emperor Dessalines is assassinated outside Port-Au-Prince Fourteen years of civil war will follow with Emperor Christophe in the North and Pétin in the south. Next South America & Caribbean: An unsuccessful bid for independence in Venezuela is led by Francisco de Miranda, a Creole. |
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| North America:Meriwether Lewis is named Governor of the Louisiana territory when he and Clark end their successful expedition in its capital, St. Louis. Zebulon Pike explores the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains. The United States suffers from restrictions on trade to Europe. Coal gas is added to candlewax and whale oil as a source of lamp fuel. Congress appropriates funds for a road along the Cumberland Trail from Maryland to Ohio and the Natchez Trace from Natchez, Mississippi to Nashville. Webster’s first Dictionary. | |||||||||||
| Europe: British ships blockade most of Europe that is claimed by Napoleon. Unperturbed the Emperor places his brothers on the thrones of Holland and Naples. He also ends the 1000-year-old Holy Roman Empire, defeats the Prussian Army and, from Berlin, proclaims Britain blockaded despite his lack of a navy. Ireland suffers a potato crop failure. American cotton and other products become scarce everywhere in Europe. Beethoven composes. | |||||||||||
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January 1806
Early in January 1806 the two Spaniards Casa Calvo and Morales return to Natchitoches and on the 25th William C. C. Claiborne writes to Morales "I believe it a duty to remind you that the departure from the territory of yourself and the gentleman attached to your department will be expected in the course of the present month." January 30 Morales informs Claiborne that he is leaving New Orleans with his secretary Cayetano-Valdez and Domingo Heitas who is a doctor and pharmacist. |
February 1806
February 4 Casa Calvo comes back to New Orleans on and is almost immediately asked to leave the territory by the 15th. On the 12th William C. C. Claiborne sends him a passport, with "best wishes for the health and happiness of the nobleman" whose presence has become so unacceptable. Casa Calvo is highly indignant at this treatment though there is nothing to do but to accept the passport and leave Louisiana, never to return. Carnival revelry has gotten out of control. The governor prohibits street masking and most balls. Street masking will not return until 1827. |
March 1806
John Randaolf filibusters in the U. S. House because he believes Jefferson is trying to bribe Napoleon into forcing the Spanish to give up the Floridas. Governor Folch refuses to allow the U. S. Mail to pass through West Florida. Mail delivery usually takes 4 to 6 weeks to get from Washington to New Orleans. The Spanish have troops gathering on the Trinity River in Texas. In a rare show of military initiative Claiborne is considering taking Baton Rouge and Mobile by force. By Mid March War Secretary Dearborn orders additional troops at Natchitoches and alerts the territorial militia. The foritifications at New Orleans are to be renovated. More gunboats are to be posted on the Mississippi and Lake Pontchartrain. The Pascagoula River is cleared of obstructions down to the 31st parallel. Fort Stodart is erected in the Tombigbee District. |
April 1806
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May 1806
General James Wilkinson is ordered to take command of troops along the Southwest border near Natchitoches. |
June 1806
By the Summer of 1806 tensions are near a breaking point as Spanish troops on the Trinity March to the Sabine and within 10 miles of Natchitoches. Claiborne is at Natchitoches wondering where Wilkinson is located. The abortive war at Natchitoches settles into an uneasy quiet. General James Wilkinson suddenly appears to expose the intrigues of Aaron Burr. |
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| In 1806 Destrehan
and Sauve in turn become Council President, while Watkins becomes Speaker
of the House and Daniel Clark becomes the first delegate from territorial
Louisiana to the United States Congress.
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 In 1806 a New Orleans city police force is created. In 1806 the remaining plantation lands created from the Jesuit lands of 1763 are subdivided. Many buyers bought whole blocks and built country homes which slowed development in the area until the street railway in the 1830s. In 1806 Coliseum Square, or the Lower Garden District is laid out by four Creole plantation owners when classic ideas were in vogue. Street names in the area are Greek muses, nymphs and schools. |
The Red River is explored by Thomas Freeman and Peter Custis. On the brink of war over the western border of Louisiana leaders of local army units commanded by General James Wilkinson iron out a compromise creating the Neutral Ground between the Rio Hondo and the Sabine River near Natchitoches. This "Free State of Sabine" becomes a haven for murderous bandits such as John Murrel. Lt. Enoch Humphries on another expedition up the Pearl River. Last year he explored the Atchafalaya. |
In 1806 Donaldsonville is founded by William Donaldson on the farm of Pierre Landry. | Born this year: Leonidas Polk (1806-1864) will be known as the Battling Bishop. At the same time he will be the Episcopal Bishop of Louisiana and a Lieutenant General in the Confederate Army. |
Leonidas Polk Thomas Jefferson Wells |
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