The Pig War border confrontation began when Lyman Cutlar shot a British-owned pig on San Juan Island.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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The Pig War border confrontation began when Lyman Cutlar shot a British-owned pig on San Juan Island.
The French government sold the entire Louisiana Territory, which included an area that now forms part of fifteen separate states, at less than 3 cents per acre.
France agreed to sell 828,000 square miles of territory that stretched from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains, and which doubled the size of the United States.
Although ridiculed shortly afterwards as ‘Seward’s Folly’, the Alaska Purchase has since been reinterpreted as one of President Andrew Johnson’s greatest achievements.
On the 13th January 1935, the Territory of the Saar Basin voted to reunite with Germany.
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