The household history of the United States and its people, for young Americans . ^Sl£,-!^ik-:-^Ji officers and men in the service. The navy lost one hun-dred and four men, including fifty-six that died of disease. LATER DEVELOPMEXTS OF THE COVXTRY. ^gg. CHAPTER LXI. LATER DEVELOFMEXTS OF THE COUNTRY, We have seen how the United States, which was at Additions of ter- i*ii tr**-!-* ritory before the hrst hniited by the Mississippi River on the west and civii Florida on the south, received before the civil warof 1861-1865 five additions to its territor}-, making itabout three times as larg
The household history of the United States and its people, for young Americans . ^Sl£,-!^ik-:-^Ji officers and men in the service. The navy lost one hun-dred and four men, including fifty-six that died of disease. LATER DEVELOPMEXTS OF THE COVXTRY. ^gg. CHAPTER LXI. LATER DEVELOFMEXTS OF THE COUNTRY, We have seen how the United States, which was at Additions of ter- i*ii tr**-!-* ritory before the hrst hniited by the Mississippi River on the west and civii Florida on the south, received before the civil warof 1861-1865 five additions to its territor}-, making itabout three times as large as it was before, as mav beseen by the maps on pages 241, C93, and 294: i. Theold French province of Louisiana, a vast region west ofthe Mississippi, by purchase from France. 2. The so-called Oregon Countrv, by exploration and Florida, bv purchase from Spain. 4. Texas, bv tlieannexation of an independent republic, once a part of 370 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. Purchase ofAlaska, 1867.
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