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King Frederick VI of Norway & Denmark, having sided with Napoleon, was forced to cede Norway to Sweden. At the peace table it was read, "King Frederick cedes the kingdom of Norway with all its dependencies. ..." A smart Dane put in quickly, "excepting Greenland, the Faroes and Iceland." An Irishman named Edmund Bourke added, "These colonies have never belonged to Norway." In 1814 Norwegians, rankling at Sweden, scarcely noticed the lie or the loss of Greenland. They continued to hunt and seal on its gloomy eastern coast. The Danes claimed only the west coast. Greenland was still anybody's dead...
...John Dane 1L (E) won by default; N. T. Winthrop '34 (E) won by default; F. A. Gilbert '34 (E) defeated D. C. Scott '35 (K), 3-1; J. B. Walker '33 (E) defeated S. H. Low '34 (K), 3-0; L. B. Thacher '34 (E) won by default...
John Todd 21, (A) defeated John Dane 1L (E), 3-2; J. R. Gonzales '35 (A) defeated N. T. Winthrop '34 (E), 3-2; F. A. Gilbert '34 (E) defeated W. J. Bender 4G (A), 3-1; J. B. Walker '33 (E) won by default; L. B. Thacher '34 defeated V. M. Haughton...
...Francis '33 (E) defeated G. R. Shaw '35 (W), 3-1; E. E. Mitchell '34 (E) defeated R. D. Tucker '34 (W), 3-0; Acosta Nichols, Jr. '34 (E) defeated P. H. Singer '34 (W), 3-0; John Dane 1L (E) defeated Edward McElwain 2L (W), 3-0; David Weld '24 (E) defeated W. F. Wolff...
...Winthrop '34 (E) won by default; John Dane 1L (E) defeated W. F. Wolff '33 (W), 3-2; F. A. Gilbert '34 E) defeated T. S. Offut '33 (W); G. B. Walker '33 (E) won by default; A. S. Hartwell '34 (E) won by default...