The War They Called Stolen #MexicanAmericanWar #ushistory

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:00]A young Abraham Lincoln openly called an ongoing American war illegal and unconstitutional and his own government nearly destroyed his political career to silence him.

[00:00:13]In 1846, the president claimed foreign soldiers had crossed the border and shed American blood on American soil, but that border was a complete fabrication drawn through disputed desert that the United States didn't actually own.

[00:00:30]Lincoln stood up in Congress and demanded the president point [music] to the exact spot where the blood was spilled. Half the country agreed with him, furious over what they saw as a corrupt land grab designed to expand slavery. But despite [music] the massive protests in Washington, the military kept marching all the way to the enemy's capital.

[00:00:52]Was seizing a million square miles of land a brilliant strategic victory or just an unconstitutional theft?

[00:01:00]Lincoln's anti-war [music] crusade made him so hated by his own voters that he was effectively banished from politics for the [music] next 10 years. Every border on that map was drawn in someone's blood. Follow at how America was won so you don't miss the next one.