British banks lent the United States money used to pay France for Louisiana. Napoleon, in this telling, expected the proceeds to support the army assembled against Britain. British finance therefore helped move money toward a strategic opponent while facilitating a major territorial purchase. The tentative final claim, offered from memory rather than as part of the video's main argument, is that the Royal Navy captured some of the money on its return.
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British credit and the Louisiana Purchase
A Napoleonic-era aside notes the irony that British banks helped finance the American purchase whose proceeds Napoleon hoped to use against Britain.