The Gadsden Purchase

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

On this day in 1853...

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It was the Gadsden Purchase that settled the main boundaries of the United States of America (though Alaska was added in 1867). The Louisiana Purchase of fifty years earlier, the biggest land sale in history, had transferred an area