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on behalf of his father since 1796. A second accounting in 1804 increased that sum to 16,300 piastres. Until his own death in 1843, de Lassus continued to work to pay off these family debts. According to official documents and letters, de Lassus held several people as slaves during his lifetime, both
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Adelayda Elena Feliciana Martina Leonard (1791–1816), daughter of Don Gilberto Leonard. They had one child, Auguste de Hault de Lassus (1813–1908), who lived to adulthood. After resigning his commission, de Lassus and his wife lived in New Orleans. After Adelayda died during
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Spanish officials were corrupt and nonresponsive, and de Lassus felt the small garrison at Baton Rouge was woefully inadequate for maintaining order in the territory. The district faced pressures from multiple fronts, including American land claims, bandits, military deserters,
496:. In 1802 he was promoted to the rank of colonel. His first act upon taking command in St. Louis was to order a population census of Upper Louisiana, which recorded 6,028 people—4,948 whites, 883 enslaved people, and 197 freedmen. Native Americans were not included in the census.
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ceremonies as power was transferred from Spain to France to the United States. He remained in St. Louis until
October 1804, managing lingering details of the transfer of the territory until he receive new orders to convey his soldiers and munitions to New Orleans.
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Spanish officials blamed de Lassus for the loss of the
Florida Parishes, holding a tribunal in Havana in June 1812. De Lassus had resigned his commission in 1811 and refused to participate in the inquiry. Ultimately, in August 1814, he was sentenced to death
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Spanish territories. Although de Lassus initially worked with the conventions, by September 1810 the planters rejected continued negotiations with Spanish officials. On the morning of September 23, 1810, an armed group led by
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Feleciana planters, displeased with de Lassus's response to their concerns and accusing him of corruption, began organizing popular conventions in the summer of 1810. At the same time
American interests were encouraging President
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Spanish governor of the Baton Rouge District in December 1808. In St. Louis, de Lassus had been considered an effective administrator, but in West Florida he was considered indecisive and unprepared.
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Grenadiers of the Fifth Battalion, and when 29 was brevetted Lieutenant Colonel in recognition of his bravery in leading a successful assault upon and capturing
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childbirth in 1816, de Lassus returned to St. Louis where he purchased a farm. After about a decade, he returned to New
Orleans, remaining there until his death in 1843 at the age of 78.
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hostile indigenous people, and people who had escaped enslavement. At the same time, rumors of a French Republican effort to take West Florida for France were circulating.
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that Stoddard would act as France's representative in the transfer. De Lassus began making the preparations and in March 1804 he oversaw the
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Three years later, in 1794, de Lassus sought a transfer to Louisiana, arriving in New Orleans in 1794 and soon being appointed commandant at
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History of Saint Louis City and County, from the earliest periods to the present day: including biographical sketches of representative men
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During his time in Upper Louisiana, de Lassus's father amassed considerable debts. In 1801, de Lassus calculated he had paid 7,425
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426:. At the age of 15, de Lassus joined the Spanish army and rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel and earned a place in the
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permission to proceed up the Missouri River without first consulting his superiors. Lewis, established
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to wait out the winter as de Lassus sought approval from his superiors,
836:"Hidden Louisiana: The Republic of West Florida - ANTIGRAVITY Magazine"
962:. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press. pp. 109–111.
888:. Athens, Georgia: The University of Georgia Press. pp. 157–159.
449:, de Lassus's parents fled to Spanish Louisiana in 1791, settling in
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in Baton Rouge, imprisoned de Lassus, and declared an independent
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813:. Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 121.
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Atlantic Loyalties: Americans in Spanish West Florida, 1785–1810
709:"From the City of the Gauls to New Bourbon (Ste. Geneviève)"
526:. In February 1804, de Lassus received via U.S. Army Capt.
758:. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: L. H. Everts. p. 212.
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261:Adelayda Elena Feliciana Martina Leonard
937:Missouri Historical Society Collections
694:The Story of the West Florida Rebellion
669:"Charles de Hault Delassus (1767–1843)"
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468:. In New Madrid, his brother-in-law,
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770:"People | Dehault Delassus"
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807:Davis, William C. (2011).
774:Discover Lewis & Clark
752:Scharf, J. Thomas (1883).
735:"Week in Missouri History"
501:Lewis and Clark Expedition
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933:"Letters of Instructions"
857:. In Duve, Thomas (ed.).
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