French Louisiana

State · 1800–1804 CE · at its largest around 1803 CE

The vast territory in the Mississippi basin returned to France by Spain, which Napoleon then sold to the United States in the 1803 Louisiana Purchase.

On its lands while it lasted

Thomas Jefferson (1743 CE – 1826 CE): Principal author of the Declaration of Independence and third US President, who made the Louisiana Purchase.
Toussaint Louverture (c. 1743 CE – 1803 CE): Formerly enslaved general who led the Haitian Revolution and governed Saint-Domingue; he was seized by the French and died in prison in France.
Tecumseh (c. 1768 CE – 1813 CE): Shawnee leader who built a pan-tribal confederacy against US expansion and allied with Britain in the War of 1812; killed at the Battle of the Thames.
Simón Bolívar (1783 CE – 1830 CE): Caracas-born leader who led the independence of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia from Spain, known as El Libertador.
Haitian Revolution (1791–1804 CE): Uprising of enslaved people in the French colony of Saint-Domingue that abolished slavery and created Haiti, the first state founded by formerly enslaved people.
Louisiana Purchase (1803 CE): The United States bought the vast Louisiana territory from Napoleonic France, roughly doubling the size of the country.