In fact, William H. Seward was ridiculed by some for signing ... his decision to push for the purchase of Alaska from Russia has been vindicated a thousand times over. For just £5.8m, America ...

President Trump isn’t the first U.S. politician to be interested in Greenland — not by a long shot.

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