The United States laid claim to the territory from the Perdido River to the Mississippi River, which the Americans believed had been a part of the old province of Louisiana when the French had agreed to cede it to Spain in 1762.
Os Estados Unidos reclamaban o territorio que ía desde o río Perdido ao río Mississippi, que os americanos pensaban que fora unha parte da vella provincia da Luisiana cando os franceses a cederan no 1763.