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Pity he isn't offering $54.40. Cf. "Fifty-four forty or fight!", a slogan demanding that England give up a bunch of Pacific Northwest territory to the US that
by ncmncm 4y ago
Pity he isn't offering $54.40.
Cf. "Fifty-four forty or fight!", a slogan demanding that England give up a bunch of Pacific Northwest territory to the US that it in any case had never owned, the land having been already occupied for thousands of years.
The US response to locals' assertions of sovereignty was to move in and burn down their houses and literally all of the food they had saved for winter.
- d23 4y agoHe'd rather make a 420 or 69 joke.
- ncmncm 4y agoMake or be? Hard to tell lately.
- jonwachob91 4y ago>>> England give up a bunch of Pacific Northwest territory to the US that it in any case had never owned That's a very shallow interpretation, as England had laid claim to the land in 1818.
- ncmncm 4y agoOh, really? "Laid claim" is is all it takes to own land people have held, lived on, and worked for at least ten millennia?
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