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“The game that was worth the candle.”
In order to understand the game that was being played out one has to go all the way back to the American Revolution and the, “Declaration of Independence.” The American Revolution was all about the flame of freedom, the Declaration of Independence being the document defining and representing that flame. At the conclusion of the American Revolution an entirely new country had been born, its borders still small and weak and constantly exposed at the doorsteps of threat, the War of 1812 and the strategies employed by the British further illuminating America's vulnerable state.
The British owned the Atlantic, Spain surrounded the Gulf, both of these powerhouses occupying the lands and Pacific borders in the west. How fortunate it was that Spain had allied with the Americans during the American Revolution and not the British, thought this potentially disastrous alliance could easily come about at any moment as was witnessed during the Napoleonic Wars. So make no mistake, this potentially and possible threat was always looming with the Americans having little means to defend itself against such an alliance. Anyone who has researched European history readily recognizes that alliances were often a fragile and inconsistent affair, the switching of sides a common occurrence. All of this being circumstances and conditions that the new American leaders in Washington were fearfully aware of.
The Louisiana Purchase. France was America's only true ally after the revolution and the purchase of the Louisiana territory was a critical measure for the Americans, and not only in expanding the new country's borders, access, and security, but that purchase also provided Napoleon with a sufficient amount of funds that further allowed him to increase the intensity in his European conflict, this also keeping a great deal of the British interest occupied there instead of the Americas for as long as Napoleon could hold out. So from the American perspective the Louisiana Purchase contained two different strategies and purposes, thus the critical political “game that was worth the candle” was now underway and in full play and with enormous risk, the American goal being an eventual path clear to the Pacific.
Now I'm going to pass over several years and several critical treaties that took place during those years in order to move more swiftly to the first of two absolutely critical treaties that are in direct relation to the narration in the Beale pamphlet. The first being the Adams Onis Treaty of 1821 and the second being the Treaty of Limits of 1828, both of these super critical treaties interwoven with each other. These will be covered in more detail in part 3. I only reference them now so folks can brief themselves beforehand.
In order to understand the game that was being played out one has to go all the way back to the American Revolution and the, “Declaration of Independence.” The American Revolution was all about the flame of freedom, the Declaration of Independence being the document defining and representing that flame. At the conclusion of the American Revolution an entirely new country had been born, its borders still small and weak and constantly exposed at the doorsteps of threat, the War of 1812 and the strategies employed by the British further illuminating America's vulnerable state.
The British owned the Atlantic, Spain surrounded the Gulf, both of these powerhouses occupying the lands and Pacific borders in the west. How fortunate it was that Spain had allied with the Americans during the American Revolution and not the British, thought this potentially disastrous alliance could easily come about at any moment as was witnessed during the Napoleonic Wars. So make no mistake, this potentially and possible threat was always looming with the Americans having little means to defend itself against such an alliance. Anyone who has researched European history readily recognizes that alliances were often a fragile and inconsistent affair, the switching of sides a common occurrence. All of this being circumstances and conditions that the new American leaders in Washington were fearfully aware of.
The Louisiana Purchase. France was America's only true ally after the revolution and the purchase of the Louisiana territory was a critical measure for the Americans, and not only in expanding the new country's borders, access, and security, but that purchase also provided Napoleon with a sufficient amount of funds that further allowed him to increase the intensity in his European conflict, this also keeping a great deal of the British interest occupied there instead of the Americas for as long as Napoleon could hold out. So from the American perspective the Louisiana Purchase contained two different strategies and purposes, thus the critical political “game that was worth the candle” was now underway and in full play and with enormous risk, the American goal being an eventual path clear to the Pacific.
Now I'm going to pass over several years and several critical treaties that took place during those years in order to move more swiftly to the first of two absolutely critical treaties that are in direct relation to the narration in the Beale pamphlet. The first being the Adams Onis Treaty of 1821 and the second being the Treaty of Limits of 1828, both of these super critical treaties interwoven with each other. These will be covered in more detail in part 3. I only reference them now so folks can brief themselves beforehand.
