Operation Plunder

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French territory in early 19th Century America was ideal for US expansion when the Louisiana Purchase was negotiated for $15 million or $0.03 per acre as Napoleon forced France into financial distress during the Napoleonic Wars.

Sacagawea was born into the Shoshone tribe before being kidnapped and sold into a non-consensual marriage with a fur-trapper who brought her and their 55-day-old son on the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

Beowulf is an epic poem in the Norse tradition of heroic mythology, where the protagonist defeats a swamp monster Grendel before reigning as king.

The Knights Templar was a protective order in France that established a dominant network of banks, allowing Christian pilgrims to access their money. The order spread throughout Europe, but was eventually dissolved by King Philip.

The Tiananmen Square Massacre of June 4th, 1989, saw some 300,000 Chinese troops descend on Beijing, murdering protestors, bystanders and students sleeping in their tents.

Rising temperatures after the last Ice Age led a once barren landscape to flourish with life. The great plains people followed an estimated 30 million buffalo into the region, practiced ceremonial dance and created languages for cross-tribe communication.

In response to his objections to the Catholic Church’s practice of selling indulgences, Martin Luther wrote his 95 theses which led Pope Leo to condemn Luther as a heretic and ultimately the Protestant Reformation.