A deal to buy California and settle the Texas boundary line--Slidell worked as an ambassador to Mexico to offer $25 million for California and agreement to set the boundary line of Texas at the Rio Grande.
Slidell brought this deal to Mexico partly because Texas was a free independent state that wanted to be annexed by the US but had not settled their southern border. The US wanted the boundary settled before annexing Texas. Also the wanted the California region to expand land holdings. Mexico rejected the offer.
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Gaul
Faced with the intransigence of the Senate, Caesar and the 13th Legion cross the Rubicon, the official border between Gaul and Italy, a decision that will lead to civil war.
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Lawrence, Kansas
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"The Sacking of Lawrence occurred on May 21, 1856, when pro-slavery activists, led by Douglas County Sheriff Samuel J. Jones, attacked and ransacked Lawrence, Kansas, a town which had been founded by anti-slavery settlers from Massachusetts who were hoping to make Kansas a free state." Wikipidia
It would be the cities of "Atlanta and Savannah" that were nearly burned to the ground late in the Civil War, since the Union Army soldiers who occupied these spaces briefly wanted to implement a "scorched earth" policy. <span />
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I am going to say C. Dawson's Creek, not a 100% sure but I am going to say Dawson's creek.