Louisiana Purchase - Wikipedia

Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Think about our purchase of Alaska from Russia for a mere $7,000,000 about fifty years later in 1867. All of our wealth gotten from there was surely not a folly (think Seward).

SSG Jason Werstak - That truly is amazing. It would be hard to imagine what the world could look like now.

Yes that was another great purchase but think the Louisiana one was more significant to the country as we know it today. Alaska brought many things but wasn't as significant in the shaping and culture of the US that we have today.

SSG Jason Werstak Not the historian that SGT (Join to see) is, but think that the Sewards Folly title that this purchase was given pretty well summarizes what the Russians (And some of US) thought they were giving up. They needed money and thought they were selling worthless land to the US. What came to be strategic importance a hundred years later was far from the Russian minds.

Lt Col Charlie Brown It is almost unfathomable to think of our country without it!