Did you know that San Diego wasn't ours until about 150 years ago? In fact, the entire southwestern area of the US, including California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and parts of New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas, once belonged to Mexico. All this land was achieved through the Me...
Slidell left Mexico City for a town a few miles away and Herrera sent troops to the Rio Grande to confront the Americans. ... Although the U.S. gained about 1.2 million square miles of land as well as having the Wilmot Proviso outlaw slavery other than where it already was, nearly 13,000 Americans lost their lives and the country invested around $100 billion into the war. ...
A stitched flag, whose star and a grizzly bear's likeness, was raised on the public square in Sonoma. ... over 500,000 square miles of territory, including all of the future states of California, Nevada, and Utah, almost all of New Mexico and Arizona, and parts of Colorado and Wyoming. ...
I stopped the show because nothing looked right; the forms were sloppy, the square that turned into star looked nothing like a star, and people obviously didn't know the music because it sounded horrendous. ... I would rather have ran 1,000 miles, than to have lost one of my best friends. ...
