You say I can't tell the truth and prove it by posting a trump tweet and citing a quote by Willie.
Yeah? So?
I don't see what "connection"...
The two biggest frauds in history.
Oh.
Srsly. You don't have a very good grasp of Frauds Throughout History.
The Cat pictured below sent letters to The Government of France saying "
Hey Dudes, most lucrative Real Estate investment ever, over here in USA. Only telling you guys, not telling anyone else, all I want as Finder's Fee is a fair parcel of land. Move Fast Dudes, opportunity of a Lifetime."
Truth was he had sent the same letter to a bunch of people.
the French already controlled
part of the area in question, what was referred to as "the colony of Louisiana". France was the first European country to settle this area of North America (1699-1763) but Americans had control of a percentage of this colony that was way bigger than what France controlled and actually much much larger than the entire country of France
itself.
The French knew little about the huge part that The Americans controlled. Many French people (and Americans) did not even know where it was but rumors were YUGE that this land was rich in silver and gold, the French currency.
At that point, the American Population was confined to the Eastern Seaboard basically from Boston down to what I'm guessing would be somewhere around what is now Savannah Georgia though North of that at what is now Charleston South Carolina might be more accurate, Southern Expansion was kinda like "ongoing" you know....dudes getting on a horse and riding a few miles south to see what was down there.....
Exactness irrelevant here cuz point is beyond that? Like, to us today the same as pondering on what lies beyond the borders of our Universe, like, what is out past the farthest reaches of whatever.
The French (and others he'd targeted for his Scam) sent this guy (John Law) a bunch of money....to simplify matters immensely, Historians and particularly
ECONOMISTS will kill me for this
but in the interest of shortness of posts.
Law was a brilliant mathematician who used his understanding of probability to help his gambling habit.
I don't know what people gambled on back in 1719 but, whatever that was apparently Law did that.
Escaping from his native Scotland after killing a rival in a duel, Law had made friends with the Duke of Orleans, the regent of the young king Louis XV.
The finances of the French government were in a terrible mess. Louis XIV had spent much of his long reign fighting expensive wars. Tax collection was in the hands of various agents, who were more concerned with enriching themselves than the state. Not only was the monarchy struggling to pay the interest on its debt, there was also a credit crunch
in the form of a shortage of the gold and silver coins needed to fund economic activity.
So the Scam worked. French believing there was Gold & Silver in abundance they bought it hook, line & sinker and Law managed to scam the already financially wounded France, which France realized when reports that The Louisiana Colony appeared to be, to a large extent just Swamp.
Prior to and even after finding out that they'd been scammed France seized on a great plan to accomplish Labor to work their new land far away from France and also clean up France itself by getting rid of some Undesirables. France released Prisoners in Paris in September 1719 to go to their new purchase in the Louisiana Colony and get busy extracting the Gold & Silver there, a condition that was mandatory for release of a Prisoner was that they marry a prostitute and go with them to The Louisiana Colony....or they could just stay the fug in jail. The newly married couples were chained together and taken to the port of embarkation, shipped over, dropped off.....
eventually France was getting Cables, telegrams whatever that said "
WTF?!?!? This place is a total swamp!!!"
To which France responded: "
Oh Shit. This is not Good. In fact, this is terrible. Not as far as concern for you goes cuz you guys are just a bunch of Prisoners and Prostitutes but for us, the French, this is not good The answer to your question is "no", we aren't bringing you guys back to France, Fate has taken you Whores and BadGuys to where you are, deal with it."
In May 1720, after complaints from others in the area about France shipping over so many Whores and Criminals, the French government stopped these deportations after sneaking one more in, a third shipment of prisoners in 1721 which when called on they said:
"Oh. Yeah. Woops. Sorry. Don't know how that happened. Slipped through, miscommunication. OK, we'll stop now, we promise."