On March 30, 1867, U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and Russian envoy Baron Edouard de Stoeckl signed the Treaty of Cession. With a stroke of a pen, Tsar Alexander II had ceded Alaska, his ...
Trump has called Greenland essential for U.S. "national security purposes" and hinted at using military or economic pressure to bring the world's biggest island under American control.