This was what caused the friendship between the two governments of Washington and St. Petersburg.
In 1867 also, while Mr. Seward was still Secretary of State, Alexander II sold us all Russian America, that vast area which added one-third to the territory of the United States and gave us command of the Pacific Ocean at the expense of Great Britain.
Alexander II began to construct the great railroad system in Asia which now, practically finished, stretches seven thousand miles from the Caspian on the west to the Sea of Japan on the east.
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From General Nelson A. Miles
Thrilling Stories of The Russian-Japanese War, 1904
