Saturday, August 9, 2014

Diplomats And Maine's Boundaries


Boundaries of the United States and the several States:...(A Government Publication, 1976):




American State Papers:...(Great Britain---Northeastern boundary of Maine---):



Wikipedia has more:

...a confrontation in 1838–1839 between the United States and the British over the international boundary... . Top level diplomats from the US and Britain met in Washington and forged a peaceful compromise, the Webster-Ashburton Treaty in 1842, which fixed the permanent border. 


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