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To: Spirochete
Most of the American Southwest was won in the Mexican War and ceded to the US in the Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo. Later a strip of what is now southern Arizona was purchased, the Gadsden Purchase, intended to allow a railroad route to San Diego. It wasn’t stolen and only some of it was purchased. Either way it’s ours and we are not giving it to anyone.
22 posted on 06/05/2019 7:32:32 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard (Power is more often surrendered than seized.)
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To: hinckley buzzard

Gadsden Purchase was a separate treaty of sale, several years later.

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo gave the Mexicans $15 million, plus agreed to pay up to another $5 million to settle the claims of Americans against mexico.

We bought it with blood AND gold...then bought more for only gold.


80 posted on 06/05/2019 11:41:28 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch
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