Falmanac: The Fallston Almanac of American History
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Mexican War
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Mar 6, 2013
Remembering the Alamo
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(LoC) Texans or Texians, according to some sources, began fighting for independence from Mexico in 1835. By December the small Texas army...
Jan 4, 2012
1847: Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government
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(Wikipedia) On January 4, 1847, Captain Samuel Walker and the Texas Rangers, who had acquired some of the first Colt revolvers produced duri...
Mar 6, 2010
Remembering the Alamo
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(LoC) Texans or Texians, according to some sources, began fighting for independence from Mexico in 1835. By December the small Texas army ha...
Nov 21, 2009
A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War, and the Conquest of the American Continent
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(NYTBR) President James K. Polk has languished in obscurity long enough to have become the subject of an amusing — and remarkably accurate —...
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