>Do you really not learn about Manifest Destiny in school in England? I'm surprised. When I was in Germany all of the kids covered it.

I can't remember being taught much at all about US history in grammar school. Then again, the whole of the French Revolution, Napoleonic Wars etc. are just a blur to me- we had such a boring, droning, uninspiring, note dictating teacher that we all went to sleep or mucked about. I failed my history exams because of this. All I can recall are some "catch phrases" such as "repeal of the Corn Laws". Now I lap it up.
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>>What do you mean? Where did I refer to any of them. I'm talking about (excuse any mis-quoting) "The whiteman made us many promises, none of which he kept; except for one: he promised to take our land and he took it"
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>>I don't know too much about all the rest (we don't learn that in school) but I might have mentioned earlier that you fought the Spanish for, what? - New Mexico, Florida, California, Texas? (wasn't the Alamo involved in that? - or was Spain the aggressor there?)
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>>>Are you referring to the Louisiana Purchase? The land that French ceded to Spain, got back, which Napoleon wanted to have as a place to supply Hispaniola? When he didn't get Hispaniola back, he had no need of the area so he offered it to the US? The US wanted it because they were worried about France keeping it and taking control of New Orleans and America as a whole, and losing access to the Mississippi.
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>>France didn't exactly ask the aboriginies who THEY wanted!
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>>>...Or the Mexican Cession?
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>>Was that after the Spanish-USA war?
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>>>Or Manifest Destiny in general?
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>>What is that?