The American President Ulysses Grant arbitrates and finds for Portugal in a dispute with the U.K. regarding the attribution of the island of Bolama near what was then Portuguese Guinea (now Guinea-Bissau). The historical arguments of Portugal prevailed. Soon the great powers would give priority to the doctrine of effective occupation.
The British Historical Society of Portugal is a Society with about 250 members and has as its object to recover, preserve and collate as much as possible of the history of the British in Portugal, and to promote interest in the History of Anglo-Portuguese relations.
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