Reminiscences Of The Geneva Tribunal Of Arbitration 1872 The Alabama Claims PDF Download

Excerpt from Reminiscences of the Geneva Tribunal of Arbitration 1872: The Alabama Claims IT is now almost forty years since the Tribunal of Arbitration at Geneva happily disposed of the famous Alabama Claims, that had at one time threatened to bring on a war between the United States and Great Britain. The loser paid with a 'good grace the sum of fifteen millions five hundred thousand dollars in gold, as indemnity; and the two countries ever after have been all the firmer friends. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.