Posted on 05/30/2012 6:42:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Trickery?? What a duffas.
“Sam Houston whips Generalissimo Santa Anna at San Jacinto, 1836”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvj0pCbDvnI
Houston chose the right moment & in 18 minutes it was established.
No, just give back Nevada...to punish them for electing Reid to 5 terms in the U.S. Senate.
Those northern provinces of Mexico that the US gained in the Mexican-American war didn’t originally belong to Mexico, if we want to get technical. They belonged to local indian tribes like the Comanches or Apaches. And the Mexico took those lands, through war, from those tribes.
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