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Wish I still had that dig. Real history is so much more interesting that the garbage they give us. The loss of El Cazador was carrying a massive load of silver from Mexico but lost without a trace. It's arrival would have revitalized the French colony at New Orleans and likely stopped the USA at ol Miss. That and the loss of two French warships loaded with elite troops at Haiti during the only successful slave rebellion and the fact that France was broke because of Napoleons little man complex made the Louisiana Purchase possible.
Those two French warships were only making a temporary stop at Haiti but were destined for New Orleans to begin laying down the law in France West. The Haitians slaughtered them. The French controlled the New Orleans seaport and were putting a stranglehold on American goods headed for port to be sailed around Florida and up the eastern USA. Americans dependent on that trade route were willing to become French to get their goods to market.