Mexico saved the Union in the Civil War by preventing a French-Confederate alliance at the Battle of Puebla.
If France had defeated Mexico in that battle [Puebla], France was going to take the side of the Confederacy in the U.S. Civil War. And so Mexico kind of saved the United States.
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The Preakness Stakes should move its date to three weeks before the Kentucky Derby
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