• taiyang
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    12 days ago

    I’ve no doubt they’d have lost that land one way or another, although I suppose it could have gone to the British and made into part of Canada or something.

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      12 days ago

      Yeah. It is the same reason why Russia sold Alaska. It was better to sell to Americans than have it get conquered by the British.