New Orleans Definition

New Orleans Sentence Examples

• Foreign commerce is almost wholly centred at New Orleans.

• There are many fine groves on the Mississippi below New Orleans.

• Hammond 1 has constructed a table from information supplied by the secretaries of the cotton exchanges at New York, Charleston, Savannah, Mobile, New Orleans and Galveston, showing the sales of " spot " cotton at those ports for the twenty-two years between 1874-1875 and 1895-1896, and in all cases an absolute decline is evident.

• The westward expansion of the United States made necessary American ports on the Gulf of Mexico; consequently the acquisition of West Florida as well as of New Orleans was one of the aims of the negotiations which resulted in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803.

• In retaliation General Andrew Jackson captured the place, but in a few days withdrew to New Orleans.