Statistics for occurrence #1 of “United States” in chapter 7, page 287 of George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army:
... hands of General Meade, and his action had in every instance been approved by the government, which was well satisfied to be rid of what promised at one time to be a serious complication between the United States and Great Britain, and likely, without adroit management, to be politically injurious to those who
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