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The US borrowed British money to buy Louisiana
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Nothing screams geopolitical irony like paying your former colonizer to help you buy land. In 1803, the US desperately wanted to buy the Louisiana Territory from Napoleon, but they were massively broke. To pull it off, they heavily borrowed the cash from two major British banks at six percent interest. Napoleon then immediately used that American money to heavily fund his massive war against Britain.
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