1) 1793 with Samuel Slater's textile mill
2) Eli Whitney with his muskets
3) The Mexican-American war, by the US paying 15 million to Mexico and them giving us Californian and New Mexico and a coupla other places which escape me for the moment
4) Its still Hanoi right?
5) 10
All of these except the Vietnam one I learned this year in histroy class within the last month (the musket one cause i was reading a book bout snipers during history

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