Although ridiculed shortly afterwards as ‘Seward’s Folly’, the Alaska Purchase has since been reinterpreted as one of President Andrew Johnson’s greatest achievements.
The Pig War border confrontation began when Lyman Cutlar shot a British-owned pig on San Juan Island.
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.
On the 13th January 1935, the Territory of the Saar Basin voted to reunite with Germany.
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