by jimmypolkeditor | Jul 12, 2022 | Manifest Destiny, Personalities
François-Antoine Lallemand, born in Metz, June 23, 1774, was the son of a wigmaker of that town, who gave him a good education. Engaged as a volunteer in the 1st company of light artillery, formed at Strasbourg on May 1st of 1792, he was in their ranks during the...
by jimmypolkeditor | Mar 19, 2020 | Manifest Destiny
Despite the famous slogan “54-40 or fight,” used to promote the Democrats’ 1844 platform of settling the Oregon boundary dispute, James K. Polk and most of the United States government in 1845 did not actually want to go to war over the Oregon territory. This was...
by jimmypolkeditor | Mar 18, 2020 | Manifest Destiny
What is the Great American Desert? Rather than being a region unified by a certain common climate, as “desert” is usually taken to mean, the term “Great American Desert” in the early 19th century referred to a vast swath of largely unexplored and mostly...
by jimmypolkeditor | Dec 20, 2019 | Manifest Destiny
The Young United States’ first territory to border the Pacific ocean was the Oregon territory in the Northwest. But it did not come without struggle; the disaffected British Empire would not pass up a chance to block the expansion of their former colony. Both...