However, despite several defeats, and the loss of New York (former New Amsterdam) in September 1776, Washington hung on, and ...
The last act of Polk's predecessor, John Tyler, had been to annex the Republic of Texas in 1845. Polk wanted to lay claim to California, New Mexico, and land near the disputed southern border of ...
When the United States and Mexico went to war in 1846, California was under the loose ... Hiram Pierce, a miner from Troy, New York, conducted a funeral for a young man from Maine who died ...
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