DEPARTMENT OF STATE, WASHINGTON, May 6, 1861. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The ...
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US bought a chunk of Russia for $7,000,000 - and Kremlin is threatening to take it backIn fact, William H. Seward was ridiculed by some for signing ... his decision to push for the purchase of Alaska from Russia has been vindicated a thousand times over. For just £5.8m, America ...
William H. Seward, Secretary of State 1861-69 ... King Andy and his man Billy lay in a great stock of Russian ice in order to cool down the Congressional majority." It includes caricatures ...
This is the article we published then, with minor updates. On March 30, 1867, U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and Russian envoy Baron Edouard de Stoeckl signed the Treaty of Cession.
Johnson kept Lincoln's secretary of state, William H. Seward. Seward was mocked for arranging to purchase Alaska from Russia in 1866 ("Seward's Folly") but his decision has since been reappraised.
Major Acts: During Andrew Johnson’s tenure, foreign policy was largely handled by the Secretary of State William H. Seward. Alaska was acquired from Russia; the French, led by Napoleon III, were ...
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