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"Who was our friend when the world was our foe." -

Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1871.



The alliance formed between President Abraham Lincoln and Tsar Alexander II.



Both men assassinated.

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#UnitedStates "Who was our friend when the world was our foe." -Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1871.The alliance formed between President Abraham Lincoln and Tsar Alexander II.Both men assassinated.

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Knowing what the United States was going to be facing from the British Empire in the aftermath of the Crimea War, Tsar Alexander II, in 1857, began proposing to the United States that they purchase the Russian Territory of Alaska.