It depends on what you take to be the beginning and what the end. It lasted two years if you understand it as from the time it was revealed to the time Nixon resigned. It lasted 5 years if you take it from the time Nixon began doing it to the time he resigned.
It can. The mexican-american war also dealt with the future of the territories that were involved like the Texas territory. Since the United States won the territories from Mexico, the new colonies wanted to be slave colonies, and the general government disliked this. There would've been fewer slave colonies if they hadn't been conquered.
Battle of Flamborough Head<span> began. </span>Serapis<span> engaged </span>Bonhomme Richard<span>, and soon afterwards, </span>Alliance<span> fired, from a considerable distance, at </span>Countess<span>. Quickly recognizing that he could not win a battle of big guns, and with the wind dying, Jones made every effort to lock </span>Richard<span> and </span>Serapis<span> together (his famous, albeit possibly </span>apocryphal<span>, quotation "I have not yet begun to fight!" was uttered in reply to a demand to surrender in this phase of the battle)</span>
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Ancient Egyptian rulers commonly had absolute power, with nobody willing or able to argue their demands. Modern governments typically divide power among several different groups or people.
