Sidney Webster
Published: 2015-07-07
Total Pages: 146
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Excerpt from Two Treaties of Paris and the Supreme Court The Treaty of Paris, which nearly a century ago ceded Louisiana, surprised Congress and the country, as did the recent one with Spain which ceded islands in the East Indies and the West Indies. Both were concluded in that city where have been many conventions and arbitrations profoundly affecting the United States. The first was a victory of peace; the last was a trophy of war. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.