Word: cessions
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Dates: during 1888-1888
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...first President. "The Acquisition of Florida," a contribution from Hon, J. L. M. Curry, Minister to Spain, is a historical sketch of the troubles between the United States and Spain during the first years of the republic, and of the European complications which finally ended in the cession of Florida by Spain to the United States. This article is followed by a graphic description of the early methods of transportations and travel "Between Albany and Buffalo" in the days when railroads and canals were unknown, when roads were wretched and passable for wagons only in the neighborhood of the towns...