Scope and Contents He worries that he has not heard from his mother in two years. He has been in Louisiana for seven months, hoping that the colony's peripheral location would be easier for business, but since the United States of America has taken it over it has been overrun by Anglo-Americans who arrived with their money and took over all branches of commerce, making it impossible for the rest of them. He has therefore decided to join the military, either in the troops that serve Guadeloupe or Martinique, or...