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Cover of a 1795 pamphlet containing the text of the Jay Treaty; it was ratified in 1796 after bitter debate that polarized American politics. Once the treaty arrived in Philadelphia in March 1795, Washington—who had misgivings about the treaty's terms—kept its contents confidential until June, when a special session of the Senate convened ...
Fish ranks with Webster as the leading American diplomat of the 19th century, and he worked out an amicable solution with Britain. The controversy was peacefully resolved in 1872 by an international arbitration tribunal, in which the U.S. received $15.5 million from Britain for damages caused by British-built Confederate warships. [57] [58]
1912–25 – Nicaragua; America controls Nicaraguan affairs through control of tariff revenues under the Bryan–Chamorro Treaty. 1912–41 – China. US forces sent to protect American interests in China during chaotic revolution. In 1927, America had 5,670 troops ashore in China (mostly Marines) and 44 small naval vessels in its rivers.
Canassatego appears in British historical documents only during the last eight years of his life, and so little is known of his early life. [2] His earliest documented appearance is at a treaty conference in Philadelphia in 1742, [2] where he was a spokesman for the Onondaga people, one of the six nations of the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) League.
Comcomly was characterized by modern historian James Ronda as a talented diplomat and shrewd businessman. [2] He was friendly to the British and Euro-American explorers whom he encountered, including Robert Gray and George Vancouver. [4] Concomly met Lewis and Clark in 1805 who awarded him with peace medals.
Realpolitik (/ r eɪ ˈ ɑː l p ɒ l ɪ ˌ t iː k / ray-AHL-po-lih-teek German: [ʁeˈaːlpoliˌtiːk] ⓘ; from German real 'realistic, practical, actual' and Politik 'politics') is the approach of conducting diplomatic or political policies based primarily on considerations of given circumstances and factors, rather than strictly following ideological, moral, or ethical premises.
In an effort to get this important document promptly into the public realm John Hancock, president of the Second Continental Congress, commissioned John Dunlap, editor and printer of the Pennsylvania Packet, to print 200 broadside copies of the Declaration, which came to be known as the Dunlap broadsides. Printing commenced the day after the ...
The house used by the U.S. ambassador was designed by M. LaCollogne, Principal Architect and Chief of Civil Construction Service in Tonkin and built in 1921 by Indochina Public Property, part of the French colonial government, for Indochina Financial Governors who lived here until 1948. The house was then assigned, until 1954, to the highest ...