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18th October 1867: The Alaska Purchase completed with the formal transfer from Russia to the United States

Published: Oct. 18, 2023, 2:05 a.m.

Although ridiculed shortly afterwards as \u2018Seward\u2019s Folly\u2019, the Alaska Purchase has since been reinterpreted as one of President Andrew Johnson\u2019s greatest ...