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Alaska Purchase, a Rare card
The Alaska Purchase in 1867 resulted in the transfer of Russian America to the United States for $7.2 million.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 74
- DEF
- 78
- Power
- 152
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 390,000
Ranked #1,638 of the 2,999 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- On April 9 of that year, the United States Senate ratified a bilateral treaty that had been signed on March 30, and American sovereignty became legally effective across the territory on October 18.
- During the first half of the 19th century, the Russian Empire had established a colonial presence in parts of North America, but few Russians ever settled in Alaska.
- Alexander II of Russia, having faced a catastrophic defeat in the Crimean War, began exploring the possibility of selling the state's Alaskan possessions, which, in any future war, would be difficult to defend from the United Kingdom.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Alaska Purchase article was read about 390,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 74 and blocks with 78: each hit it takes is cut by 31 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Alaska Purchase (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Edouard de Stoeckl and William H. Seward, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.



