1828 Carte Generale de L’Amerique Septentrionale...

Carte Generale de L’Amerique Septentrionale, et Des Iles Qui En Dependent. By: Adrien-Hubert Brué Date: 1828 (Published) Paris Dimensions: 15 x 20.25 inches (38.1 x 51.44 cm) This large elegant map by Brué depicts the United States and its territories as they were internationally recognized in 1828. The map is of great interest as it depicts the various vast stretches of territory already claimed by the United States. In 1818, the United States and Great Britain established a join claim over the Oregon Territory, including regions north of Spanish-controlled upper California as far north as the southern boundary of Russia’s Alaskan Territory, which is called Amerique Russe.  In the 1830’s this arrangement began to be disputed, and by the 1840’s, the Democrats of America with their presidential candidate James Polk began to claim the entire region for the US. When Polk was elected, the dispute was resolved by the 1846 Treaty of Oregon, which struck a compromise that fixed the U.S./Canad