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feb 12, 1853 - Gadsden Purchase

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The Gadsden Purchase is a 29,670-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States purchased via a treaty signed on December 30, 1853, by James Gadsden, U.S. ambassador to Mexico at that tim

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feb 12, 1853
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~ 173 years ago

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