Re: CHAT: "have a Canadian day"

Barry Garcia wrote:
>
> In my US Histories class we learned that the US deliberately started the
> war with Mexico in the 1800's so they could gain California (troops were
> ordered to cross the Nueces river in Texas, which was then considered the
> border between Mexico and the US).
And when Mexican troops attacked the US troops, who were, after all, in
MEXICAN territory, it was claimed that Mexico had invaded!  Abraham
Lincoln, a congressman at the time, was supposed to be the only one who
asked WHERE exactly the American troops were when the Mexicans attacked,
and for that he was ridiculed.

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