The editor of the Daily Morning Chronicle was given a thirty thousand dollar bribe by Edouard deStoeckl to help secure that newspaper's support for this action.
The editor of the Daily Morning Chronicle was given a thirty thousand dollar bribe by Edouard deStoeckl to help secure that newspaper's support for this action. A year after assaulting fellowCongressman Josiah Bushnell Grinnell with a cane, Lovell Rousseau presided over the officialceremony marking this event. Lobbyist Robert J. Walker bribed Congressmen to approve of thisaction, as did Minister (*) Stoeckl. This action helped one party repay a 15 million pound loan to theRothschilds. A holiday commemorating it falls on October 18th, not the October 7th on which it occurredin the Julian calendar. It cost 7.2 million dollars and was not popular until gold was discovered in theKlondike. For 10 points, name this action dubbed Seward's Folly.
The editor of the Daily Morning Chronicle was given a thirty thousand dollar bribe by Edouard deStoeckl to help secure that newspaper's support for this action.
Purchase of Alaska [prompt on "Seward's Folly" before mentioned]