<span> because billions of dollars and millions of lives were lost in the fight.</span>
The United States presidential election of 1908 was held on November 3, 1908. Popular incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt, honoring a promise not to seek a third term, persuaded the Republican Party to nominate William Howard Taft, his close friend and Secretary of War, to become his successor.
Answer France
The territory was owned by the Kingdom of France until Napoleon gained ownership of the lands