Construct, Explore, Colonize.

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If you continue to explore all of the different branches of the Otey & Buford trees you will eventually encounter the name Beale through a marriage into one of these extended family branches.

...still that does not prove that the name, Thomas Beale, was not used as a fictional "character" in a dime novel.

 

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...still that does not prove that the name, Thomas Beale, was not used as a fictional "character" in a dim novel.

Nor is there anything to prove that it was, or that the pamphlet is indeed an entirely fictional novel. "Strength of theories" is all anyone can produce at this point.

 

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Let us assume for a moment that those Bonapartist and exiles here in the US did have a master plan for Napoleon's eventual arrival. Here's a few pieces of information that we need to consider.

During the period it was estimated that Napoleon would have little difficulty raising an army of 60'000 upon his arrival.
To the north he would have seen additional support from Canada.

New Orleans was already home to a strong Bonapartist faction and it was also home to many of those privateers who served in his campaigns.
In St. Louis it is nearly all French influence.
At Galveston Island a new port is being established and colonization has begun.

In the United states two other very important events are starting to play out, these being the looming bank panic and also the continued political debate over how to manage the Louisiana Purchase.

One proposed cure to the looming banking crisis is that all banks needed to be backed with hard currency, this policy in effect wreaking absolute havoc on those American Banks who could not accommodate this proposal, to which there would have been a certain financial crisis if endorsed.

Now let us look at St. Louis, a mostly French city, the only port city sitting on the west bank of that mighty river. In this city, at this time, there are French owned banks trying desperately to charter. So what would happen if these French banks had gotten charter and those two Beale deposits had ended up in these French banks? Now what if Napoleon himself had ended up in St. Louis with that well financed army of 60'000?

Right away Napoleon would gain control of New Orleans, St. Louis, and his rapidly growing colony at Galveston Island. And with this the entire Louisiana Purchase falls back into his absolute control.

“Construct, Explore, Colonize.”

...and none of this has to do with the Beale story in Ward's job pamphlet.

 

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In 1816, several merchants and fur traders formed the BANK OF ST LOUIS, and accepted FUR as collateral.
Those who formed this bank were Auguste Chouteau, Manuel Lisa, Barthlomew Berthold, Sylvestre Labadie, Moses Austin, Rufus Easton, and J B C Lucas, who was born in France, and was befriended by Benjamin Franklin during his stay in Paris.
Also to be noted, in 1817, George Hancock Kennerly, uncle of Julia Hancock, whom a certain duel was fought, started his mercantile business in St Louis.

IN St Louis there was a strong connection to the Risqué family bloodline in addition to the Kennerlys and Hancock,(Julia married William Clark who was governor of Missouri) and the Hutter family was stationed there while future Beale Papers copyright agent and publisher was an assistant military paymaster in St Louis in the 1840's.
Not a known Bonapartist in the bunch- Just sayin'.