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The blood, wine, and olives
President Andrew Jackson didn't want to have a war with Mexico but also did not want to deal with adding what could be another slave State. Jackson believes that if Texas was annexed, the other countries would view the United States a traitors. He was passionate about Texas but he was more passionate about keeping the Union together.
He was trying to find a water route west to Asia, but instead he found the Americas.
Turkish revolutionaries waged the Turkish War of Independence against Ottoman loyalists and neighboring countries, and engaged in continuing conflict with the Democratic Republic of Armenia. On September 24, 1920, Turkish forces invaded and advanced unto Sarighamish and Kars resulting in the Turkish–Armenian War.