Letters and Papers Relating to the Alaska FrontierEdwin Swift Balch Press of Allen, Lane & Scott, 1904 - 134 páginas |
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... , and her right to do so was never questioned . When the Hudson Bay Company tried to erect a post surreptitiously on Wrangell Island , they were ignominiously driven away by Russian naval forces . But 12 LETTERS AND PAPERS RELATING TO.
... , and her right to do so was never questioned . When the Hudson Bay Company tried to erect a post surreptitiously on Wrangell Island , they were ignominiously driven away by Russian naval forces . But 12 LETTERS AND PAPERS RELATING TO.
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... companies wish to acquire . " Russia , however , would not yield , and in the treaty of 1825 between England and Russia the English claim was abandoned . This treaty fixes the boundary line so plainly that a misinterpretation of it is ...
... companies wish to acquire . " Russia , however , would not yield , and in the treaty of 1825 between England and Russia the English claim was abandoned . This treaty fixes the boundary line so plainly that a misinterpretation of it is ...
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... Company rented " the strip " from the Russian - American Com- pany in 1839. The fact that this strip was not Brit- ish territory has been recognized time and again by both the English and the Canadian governments . In 1876 , some ...
... Company rented " the strip " from the Russian - American Com- pany in 1839. The fact that this strip was not Brit- ish territory has been recognized time and again by both the English and the Canadian governments . In 1876 , some ...
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... Companies wish to acquire . " Mr. George Canning , the English foreign secretary at the time of the negotiations in which Count Nes- selrode was concerned , put forth no serious claim to any part of the Alaskan coast . Russia's ...
... Companies wish to acquire . " Mr. George Canning , the English foreign secretary at the time of the negotiations in which Count Nes- selrode was concerned , put forth no serious claim to any part of the Alaskan coast . Russia's ...
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... Company access to the sea . Russia insisted on a line following the summit of the mountain ranges parallel to the coast , and Great Britain finally con- ceded the claim , after many months of negotiation , during which Russia never ...
... Company access to the sea . Russia insisted on a line following the summit of the mountain ranges parallel to the coast , and Great Britain finally con- ceded the claim , after many months of negotiation , during which Russia never ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Admiralty Chart Alaska Frontier Alaskan boundary question Alasko-Canadian Frontier American contention Anglo-Russian treaty April arbitration boundary line boundary treaty Britain British Admiralty British Empire British Government British possessions Canadian Government Canadian map Clarence Straits coast line COCHRAN commission Commissioners continent Count Nesselrode crest degrees forty minutes dispute Dominion Editorial EDWIN SWIFT BALCH England entitled facts fifty-four degrees forty fiords forty minutes north Franklin Institute Henri Bourassa Hudson Bay Company inlets January Letter line of demarcation Lynn Canal mainland March ment minutes north latitude monograph Mount Saint Elias mountains Nation negotiations northwest official Petersburg Philadelphia port Portland Canal Portland Channel published Quebec Conference referred run parallel Russia Russian America Secretary settlement shore sinuosities Sir George Simpson Skagway sovereignty strait strip of territory T. W. Balch thirty miles Thomas Willing Balch tion treaty of 1825 tribunal unbroken lisière unbroken strip United Vancouver Washington
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Página 109 - ... shall prove to be at the distance of more than ten marine leagues from the ocean, the limit between the British possessions and the line of coast which is to belong to Russia, as above mentioned, shall be formed by a line parallel to the windings of the coast, and which shall never exceed the distance of ten marine leagues therefrom.
Página 108 - Island, which point lies in the parallel of 54 degrees 40 minutes north latitude, and between the 131st and the 133d degree of west longitude, (meridian of Greenwich), the said line shall ascend to the north along the channel called Portland channel, as far as the point of the continent where it strikes the 56th degree of north latitude...
Página 5 - ... (c) In determining the boundary line, if territory of one party be found by the Tribunal to have been at the date of this Treaty in the occupation of the subjects or citizens of the other party, such effect shall be given to such occupation as reason, justice, the principles of international law and the equities of the case shall, in the opinion of the Tribunal, require.
Página 81 - ... begin with what is clear and beyond question. I refer to the boundaries fixed by the treaty. Commencing at the parallel of 54° 40' north latitude, so famous in our history, the line ascends Portland channel to the mountains, which it follows on their summits to the point of intersection with the 141° west longitude, which line it ascends to the Frozen ocean, or, if you please, to the north pole. This is the eastern boundary, separating this region from the British possessions, and it is borrowed...
Página 70 - It remains only, in recapitulation, to remind you of the origin and principles of this whole negotiation. It is not, on our part, essentially a negotiation about limits. It is a demand of the repeal of an offensive and unjustifiable arrogation of exclusive jurisdiction over an ocean of unmeasured extent...
Página 15 - And, further, the United States surveys of the coast could be advantageously used to locate the coast line in deciding the mouths of the rivers in question, as points from whence the necessary triangulation surveys should commence, in order to determine the ten marine leagues back, and might further be agreed on "USCC App., 50.
Página 32 - ... (meridian of Greenwich), the said line shall ascend to the north along the channel called Portland Channel, as far as the point of the continent where it strikes the 56th degree of north latitude; from this last-mentioned point, the line of demarcation shall follow the summit of the mountains situated parallel to the coast...
Página 81 - In endeavoring to estimate its character I am glad to begin with what is clear and beyond question. I refer to the boundaries fixed by the treaty. Commencing at the parallel of 54° 40...
Página 7 - Wales, lequel point se trouve sous la parallèle du 54-me degré 40 minutes de latitude Nord. et entre le 131-me et le 133-me degré de longitude Ouest (méridien de Greenwich) la dite ligne remontera au Nord le long de la passe dite Portland Channel...
Página 108 - That, wherever the summit of the mountains which extend in a direction parallel to the coast, from the fifty-sixth degree of north latitude to the point of intersection of the one hundred and forty-first degree of west longitude...