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American sidewheel steamer that vanished after departing Victoria, British Columbia, in November 1856; her wreck was positively identified off Washington State in 2021.
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Charles Sumner's 1856 U.S. Senate speech condemned proslavery violence in Kansas; Representative Preston Brooks later caned him for its personal attacks.
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The Treaty of Paris, signed on March 30, 1856, was the peace agreement that officially ended the Crimean War between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, Britain, and Sardinia. Under the terms of the treaty, Russia was forced to relinquish its control over the Danubian p...
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