In this episode, we explore how haiti forced the louisiana purchase. Welcome to today's Dick Dive. I'm your host. And today we are digging into a stack of Wikipedia notes on one of the most famous real estate deals in human history. Hello, everyone. Glad to be here. So we're talking about the 1803 Louisiana Purchase. And if you're listening, you probably have this like mental image from grade school. Oh, absolutely. The whole Thomas Jefferson signs a neat little piece of paper, hands over a giant check and boom, the U .S. magically doubles in size. Exactly. But. The numbers we are looking at in these sources are just staggering. We are talking about 828 ,000 square miles of land, which is massive. Right. It's over 26 % of the present day contiguous United States. And they got it all from France for 15 million dollars. Yeah. Which averages out to wha ...