"Seventeen  days  later,  the  American
Commissioners,  with  their  escorts  or
troops,  arrived,  and  camped  two  miles
outside  the  city  walls.  Three  days  after
wards,  on  Dec.  20,  was  consummated
what  the  Louisianians  must  most  de
voutly  have  hoped  would  be  their  last
change  of  government..  It  was  the  third
in  the  memory  of  a  living  generation.
The  ceremony  could  not  be  anything  but
funereal  to  the  natives.
