| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - After 16 US soldiers died in a skirmish, Polk told Congress that Mexico had ???shed American blood upon the American soil.??? This claim was called ???the sheerest deception??? by a congressman named Abraham Lincoln.5 Nevertheless, the Mexican-American war was on and in 1848, Mexico, being out-gunned, signed a peace treaty ceding away half of its country, including California, for a paltry sum.6
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