02773nam 2200589 a 450 991077804730332120200520144314.00-8173-8261-5(CKB)1000000000774909(EBL)454514(OCoLC)424521264(SSID)ssj0000113677(PQKBManifestationID)11131441(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000113677(PQKBWorkID)10100993(PQKB)10206148(MdBmJHUP)muse8619(Au-PeEL)EBL454514(CaPaEBR)ebr10309841(MiAaPQ)EBC454514(EXLCZ)99100000000077490920050602d2005 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBonapartists in the borderlands[electronic resource] French exiles and refugees on the Gulf Coast, 1815-1835 /Rafe BlaufarbTuscaloosa University of Alabama Pressc20051 online resource (326 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8173-1487-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-296) and index.The new Atlantic France -- The Society for the Cultivation of the Vine and Olive -- Double and treble treachery -- Ultra-quixotism : The Bonapartist invasion of Texas -- The Vine and Olive Colony -- The fate of Vine and Olive -- Appendix : the grantees and their allotments.The ill-fated Vine and Olive Colony within the context of America's westward expansion and the French Revolution.Bonapartists in the Borderlands recounts how Napoleonic exiles and French refugees from Europe and the Caribbean joined forces with Latin American insurgents, Gulf pirates, and international adventurers to seek their fortune in the Gulf borderlands. The U.S. Congress welcomed the French to America and granted them a large tract of rich Black Belt land near Demopolis, Alabama, on the condition that they would establish a Mediterranean-style Vine and Olive colony.French AmericansAlabamaHistory19th centuryFrench AmericansLand tenureAlabamaHistory19th centuryAgricultural coloniesAlabamaHistory19th centuryVine and Olive ColonyAlabamaHistory19th centuryFrench AmericansHistoryFrench AmericansLand tenureHistoryAgricultural coloniesHistory976.1/05Blaufarb Rafe1119252MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910778047303321Bonapartists in the borderlands3814017UNINA