 ... on the work seventy-five millions of francs. It so happened that the progress of the public works of New York, with which I had been officially connected, having been unexpectedly and rather rudely stopped, I had gone to Europe ; where my business...  The Past and the Present - Page 38by Samuel Bulkley Ruggles - 1864 - 45 pagesFull view - About this book
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...stopped, I had gone to Europe ; where my business was to ascertain whether France and England would join the United States in constructing an interoceanic...minister at Paris from Nicaragua, that I met Louis Napoleon, in London, in 1846, about a month after he had escaped from prison. To external observers,... | |
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