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    The Alabama Claims were a series of demands for damages sought by the government of the United States from the United Kingdom in 1869, for the attacks...
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  • building two warships for the Confederacy, including the CSS Alabama. Known as the Alabama Claims, the controversy was partially resolved peacefully after...
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    towards reform and diplomatic moderation. He settled the controversial Alabama Claims with the United Kingdom, developing the concept of international arbitration...
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    Indians into Anglo-American culture. In Grant's foreign policy, the Alabama Claims against Great Britain were peacefully resolved, but the Senate rejected...
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    The Alabama Crimson Tide football program represents the University of Alabama (variously Alabama, UA, or Bama) in the sport of American football. The...
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  • Grant. It settled various disputes between the countries, including the Alabama Claims for damages to American shipping caused by British-built warships, as...
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    Washington between the U.S. and the United Kingdom, helping to settle the Alabama Claims. Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar was born in Concord, Massachusetts, on February...
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    the U.S. and thought Britain might accept this in exchange for the Alabama claims. Soon other elements endorsed annexation, Their plan was to annex British...
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    followed by the California Land Claims Act of 1851, which established a board to review claims to California lands. One such claim was made by Joseph Yves Limantour...
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  • The University of South Alabama (USA) is a public research university in Mobile, Alabama. It was created by the Alabama Legislature in May 1963, and replaced...
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    Alabama (/ˌæləˈbæmə/ AL-ə-BAM-ə) is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida...
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    in 1862 alone 28 were claimed. In an important development in international law, the U.S. government pursued the "Alabama Claims" against Great Britain...
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    States (No. 1058). The total claim was for $109,615.95. On February 10, 1883, James Callahan was deposed for the Alabama Claims award. In his deposition Callahan...
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    was the Johnson-Clarendon convention, negotiated in settlement of the Alabama Claims, for damages to American shipping from British-built Confederate raiders...
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    February 23, 1883, Williams testified in a Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims for compensation for the loss of the pilot boat William Bell during...
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    reputation in the U.K. with his stand on U.S. claims for British breaches of neutrality. The U.S. had claims against Britain for the damage inflicted by...
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    for his role in the unification of Italy and his adjudication in the Alabama claims. Born in Turin, to a noble family, Sclopis graduated in law and became...
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    the battlefield. The evidence became the basis of the postwar Alabama Claims. The claims went to arbitration, with Adams in charge of the American side...
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    Washington restored relations with Britain and resolved the contentious Alabama Claims, while the Virginius Affair with Spain was settled peacefully. Grant...
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    retired as Postmaster, Creswell was appointed by President Grant as an Alabama Claims Commissioner and served from 1874 to 1876. Creswell returned to private...
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  • 1871 the U.S. government was awarded damages from Great Britain in the Alabama Claims. John Mercer Brooke Isaac Newton Brown Franklin Buchanan James Dunwoody...
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  • McGill–Queen's Press. p. 10. ISBN 9780773516335. Maureen M. Robson. "The Alabama Claims and the Anglo-American Reconciliation, 1865–71". Canadian Historical...
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    Nashville, and another portion moved toward Murfreesboro and northern Alabama. Another division, plus part of a second one, did not arrive in time to...
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    Cabin (1853). This non-fiction book was intended to not only verify Stowe's claims about slavery but also point readers to the many "publicly available documents"...
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    Alabama captured or destroyed many Union merchant ships, as did other raiders fitted out in Britain. This was the basis of the postwar Alabama claims...
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    trade-off against the Alabama Claims, but the British were uninterested in this proposal. Seward was successful in staking an American claim to uninhabited Wake...
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    Malay would cook. Raphael Semmes claims a fully grown swordfish can pierce a ship’s wooden hull while Doctor Aronnax claims a giant Narwhal’s tusk can pierce...
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    finally in Paris. He was a member of the tribunal convened to arbitrate in the Alabama claims. Der Fall Alabama Genf 1872 (in German) v t e v t e v t e...
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    assistant counsel of the United States for the Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims. Blaine held this office until the court's abolition on January 1, 1886...
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    "Chapter III: The Alabama Claims – The Treaty of Washington". Reminiscences of the Geneva Tribunal of Arbitration, 1872, the Alabama Claims. New York City:...
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