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Cementing a "Bad Deal".(Letter to the editor)
Great article about Alaska in the March 31 issue! How we came to acquire that land is a fascinating and little-known story. According to A. Ralph Epperson in The Unseen Hand, Czar Alexander II of Russia sent significant contingents of his naval fleet to both our East and West Coasts to aid the Union during the War Between the States. Lincoln was concerned that France and England would help the Confederacy in an effort to permanently divide this country, but hoped that neither would risk a war with Russia.
The threat worked, and after the war the czar demanded payment to the tune of $7.2 million. By now Lincoln had been assassinated, and it fell to ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Cementing a "Bad Deal".(Letter to the editor)