Please join us on Sunday, September 18th at 7:00pm at St. James School Cafeteria, 1360 Tamm Avenue, for this very special presentation sponsored by the Dogtown Historical Society. Admission is free and refreshments will be served.
In 1798 the Spanish controlled what later became known as "The Louisiana Territory". It was at that time that Charles Gratiot was given his "Gratiot League Square", a plot of land in the rural area outside St. Louis. Gratiot was to open this land to development.
Bob Corbett, our speaker, will trace world events, revolutions, food, slave and spice trade, foreign policies from Washington, Paris, London, San Domingue and Madrid.
He plans to show how the unexpected outcome of the HAITIAN REVOLUTION, begun as a slave uprising and led by Toussaint Louverture, would become the dominant cause that would allow the young, small and poor nation of the United States to virtually steal the Louisiana Territory from France, making the founding, growth and development of the Cheltenham/Dogtown area possible.
Bob Corbett retired in 2000 as Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Webster
University after 30+ years. He has been working on this topic since the late
1980's. His paper on the topic, written in 1991, is titled:
and can be located online at:
"Napoleon's
West Indian Policy and the Haitian "Gift" to the United States"
This evening's lecture contains further research developments of the 1991 paper.
The Dogtown Historical Society is a non-profit organization established in Missouri in 2002.
For additional information, contact S. Sharamitaro at 314-631-0946 or email
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