For Honor or Destiny: The Anglo-American Crisis over the Oregon Territory (American University Studies)

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«Fifty-Four Forty or Fight» cried western politicos and American settlers within the 1840s as they gazed anxiously from south of the Columbia river even as looking forward to the diplomats in Washington and London to resolve the fate of the Oregon Territory. The dispute over the Pacific northwest with its natural harbors and its technique to Pacific commerce had stubbornly traversed five decades; each and every attempt at resolution was once foiled. When the conflict was once put aside by an exhausted Lord Ashburton in 1842, the stage was once set for an Anglo-American diplomatic crisis that allowed the intangibles of British national honor and American manifest destiny to breech a fragile rapprochement and provoke talk of war. Fortunately, the belief of mutual interests and astute eleventh-hour diplomacy intervened to provide the Oregon Treaty of 1846.

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