Now they are real BABES!!!
I bet they don’t hunt Moose for fun!!!
TonyWalsham said:
Perhaps y'all will recall just how much of a debt of gratitude the USA owes to France and Russia in the formation of the USA.If it had not been for French support against the British, maybe the War of Independence would not have been successful.
The French did sell the South for a song with the Louisianna purchase and donated that symbol of freedom, the Statue of Liberty.
The French recently offered some sage advice to hang back from invading Iraq. That advice was ignored and Obama has now inherited that mess.What did Russia contribute? Alaska for virtually nothing.
Oh!!! and BTW thank the UK for Hawaii.
Napoleon was so desperate for money to finance his wars of aggression that he sold what was thought to be worthless land in the interior for enough bucks to keep his armies going for a few more months. Sell the South? Don’t think so. What we think of as the South, minus Louisiana and Arkansas was already part of the US or its Territories.
Russia was in a difficult financial position and feared losing the Alaskan territory without compensation in some future conflict, especially to their rivals the British, who could easily have captured the hard-to-defend region. Therefore Emperor Alexander II decided to sell the territory to the US. It is true that Alex sold Alaska for 1.9 cents per acre, but at the time it, too was thought to be largely worthless land. Still, the price was $7,200,000 in 1890 US Dollars, a tidy sum.
Don’t understand how the Brits were involved in Hawaii. They were long gone by the time Hawaii became an independent nation, later annexed by the United States.
The Frogs were more interested in embarrassing Powell at the UN than in giving us any “sage advice.”
Yeah Steve,
Sage advice is a waste of time with the neo-con bunch, spice it up a bit, give them some cayenne advice.
Yup, I do get under your skin, don’t I?
Steve Featherkile said:
Yup, I do get under your skin, don't I?
HJ said:
Are you kidding? You just make me laugh, you confirm some of those stereotypical traits, they always make me laugh.
:lol: