Template:Did you know nominations/Thomas J. Cram

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The result was: rejected by Amkgp (talk) 17:34, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

Thomas J. Cram

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... that U.S. Army topographical engineer Thomas J. Cram had to negotiate a treaty of passage with the Ojibwe Chief Cha-sha-o-sha before he could complete the 1841 boundary survey between Michigan and the Wisconsin Territory? Source: "In the summer of 1840, Cram led his party up the Menominee River to its source at Brule Lake (not Lac Vieux Desert), where he negotiated a treaty of passage with the Ojibwe Chief Ca-sha-o-sha to continue the survey." Surveyor's Tree Blaze from www.wisonsinhistory.org
- ALT1:... that Michigan sued Wisconsin based on the boundary defined by U.S. Army topographical engineer Thomas J. Cram in 1841 and claimed that his survey cheated them out of 800 square miles (2,100 km²) of land? Source: "Years later the state of Michigan maintained that Captain Cram had not interpreted the boundary description correctly and had thereby deprived Michigan of some 800 square miles of territory." Those Army Engineers - A History of the Chicago District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. John Larson (1979), page 49.

5x expanded by Dwkaminski (talk). Self-nominated at 20:54, 5 February 2021 (UTC).

This is not a 5x expansion. The preexpansion version was 1,880 bytes of prose and the version from the expansion is 5,982, for a bit over 3x. Articles that start out over 1,500 characters of prose are challenging to expand fivefold. – Muboshgu (talk) 22:58, 17 February 2021 (UTC)