Threats of territorial conquest are once again becoming a central part of geopolitics, driven by a new phase of great-power ...
Early in the 19th century, while the rapidly-growing United States expanded into the ... the Creeks lost 22 million acres of land in southern Georgia and central Alabama. The U.S. acquired more ...
In 1854, amid ongoing U.S.-Mexico tensions after the war, the two countries finalized an agreement for the United States to pay Mexico $10 million for 29,670 square miles of land in what would ...