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Sunday, August 09, 2009

US and Britain signed Webster-Ashburton Treaty

On August 9, 1842, the United States and Great Britain signed the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, settling their dispute over the northern boundaries of Maine and Minnesota.

Read the full text of the treaty, online from the Avalon Project at Yale Law School.



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