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  1. April 30, 2009, 11:29 AM #1
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    Icon12 Did US have major contact.....

    With nations like Austria-Hungary and Russia during the 1800's?


    I been curious!
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  2. April 30, 2009, 01:08 PM #2
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    Default Re: Did US have major contact.....

    Well, they did pruchase the Alaska from the Russians.
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    Default Re: Did US have major contact.....

    What do you mean, nations 'like Austria-Hungary'? The Great Powers?

    AFAIK they were isolationist.
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    Default Re: Did US have major contact.....

    I think he means with Central and Eastern European countries.

    If I remeber well, Russia was one of the first countries to establish diplomatic relationships with the USA. And they openly supported the Union in the Civil War.



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  5. April 30, 2009, 02:44 PM #5
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    Default Re: Did US have major contact.....

    The US bought Alaska from Russia and the Russians' actively supported the Union in the ACW, mainly by hunting down Confederate ships being built and en route from Europe.
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    Default Re: Did US have major contact.....

    A little off topic, we were also allied with an Indian ruler who offered war elephants to Lincoln during the Civil War.
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    Default Re: Did US have major contact.....

    Quote Originally Posted by Farnan View Post
    A little off topic, we were also allied with an Indian ruler who offered war elephants to Lincoln during the Civil War.
    That's got to be the best mental image I've ever gotten from these forums, link please?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Alakasam View Post
    That's got to be the best mental image I've ever gotten from these forums, link please?
    http://www.archives.gov/press/press-.../nr99-122.html
    Thank you for reading this assuredly fantastic post.
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    Default Re: Did US have major contact.....

    Well... Elephant reproduction is a notably less funny mental image
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    Default Re: Did US have major contact.....

    i would say not much, US foreign policy was dominated by expanding and protecting its business interests at the time. So it was more involved in central and south america where american businesses were operating in larges scales. What truly "dragged" America into European affairs was really WW1.
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    Default Re: Did US have major contact.....

    Sorry it was Siam not India, my mistake.
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    Union War Elephants.... CA don't you dare.
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  13. May 01, 2009, 10:07 PM #13
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    Default Re: Did US have major contact.....

    We were a little more diplomatically open during this period (we really shut our selfs off from the world at the end of the 1800's)
    Buying Alaska, sending war ships to the Algerian coast to deal with pirates, Napoleon pressuring us to join him in his wars, Russia giving us support in our civil war and such.

    Its really interesting that after all that foreign involvement we shut our selfs off from the world like we did.
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