The Cabildo

For three months of the winter, he stays in the swamp trapping muskrats.

The rest of the year, he lives with his mother near the Cabildo.

Angie wasn't in, but his mother said he, she knew where to reach him, and five minutes later, he returned my call.

We arranged to meet for dinner, then I phoned the agent who had sold the policy in question.

The Senate ratifies the treaty 24 to 7 in October.

On November 30th, Lozada receives the colony from Spain in the Cabildo, the old government house on the main square.

He hands it to the United States in the same room 20 days later.

That same month, the last French soldiers in Saint-Domingue surrender to a British blockade, and on January 1, 1804, the island declares itself the independent nation of Haiti.

On July 9th, the fleet comes up the river to New Orleans after 10 weeks at sea.

Lozada has been waiting for three and a half months with four officers and no soldiers, and he meets the captain general at the landing.

On August 14th, Spain hands the colony to France in the council room of the Cabildo.

The governor, Manuel de Salcedo, and the king's commissioner, the Marquis of Casacalvo, sign the transfer because the officer the royal order names is standing right in front of them.

Good.

Then I think the reception at the Cabildo is sold out-

Mm-hmm

... and as are the events on Saturday, if I'm correct, the events on Saturday.