A career diplomat told President Andrew Jackson on Dec. 16, 1829 the inside story of how the Sabine River became the dividing line between Louisiana and Spanish territory -- a political bombshell Old Hickory waited 15 years to drop.The 1803 treaty that closed the sweetest land deal in American history -- the Louisiana Purchase -- failed to set hard and fast boundaries. Negotiations with ...
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