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The French were trying to take Santo Domingo but there was a great black general there named Toussaint L’Ouverture which was preventing him. On top of that the French soldiers were fighting Yellow fever which was lowering the French army numbers. Therefore Napoleon had to do the Louisiana purchase and sell it for only 15 million to supply more soldiers.