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He was fairly successful , A treaty was signed with Mexico to annex the strip of land known as the Gadsden Purchase. A trade treaty was signed with Japan. A dispute with Austria involving an American accused of espionage was settled favorably.
The big failure was his attempt to purchase Cuba from Spain which ended with the brouhaha known as the Ostend Manifesto.
You realize that there was no telegraph or telephone connection with Europe or Japan, so Pierce was dependent on his ministers to handle the actual negotiations.
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