I remember a lot of this from high school history but a lot I had forgotten too. Very interesting. Thanks for posting it.
What Greybeard58 said...
What Graybeard58 said...
One of the Russian Premieres said that they already had Siberia and they didn’t need Alaska, which is a speck of territory by comparison. In pre-oil times this was probably a sensible idea and the scorn heaped upon Seward seemed to back that logic up.