While he lost more battles than he won, George Washington employed a winning strategy that included signal victories at the Battle of Trenton in 1776 and Yorktown in 1781.
Salt for gold
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In 1854, the Missouri Compromise was repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Three years later the Missouri Compromise was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott decision, which ruled that Congress did not have the authority to prohibit slavery in the territories.
The last one is false I believe. Very shortly after the site was uncovered, archaeologists came to excavate it, and the year after it was discovered they started building a museum on the site. Safe to say robbers probably would've had a hard time pillaging it when the whole archaeological community had their attention fixated on it.