Um, well...actually the Louisiana Purchase only included parts of Northern and Northwestern Texas, didn't it? The US tried to claim...well you can read some of it here (including Spain's agreement regarding Florida and what the treaty of 1819 said the US had to do regarding Texas:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_colonization_of_Texas


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