Eleven magical minutes that dazzled the world: Spectacular London fireworks display ushers in 2012. 1  250,000 revellers watched the display which included rockets shooting out from Big Ben. 2  The display cost Â£1.9m in total to stage and included 12,000 fireworks costing Â£274,000.
In War and Military History. Mexico lost 51% of their former territory to the United States. It included present day Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California and most of Nevada, Utah, and part of Colorado. â¦ It started with the US violating a buffer zone on the border.
America's Forgotten War, south of the border. (CBS News) For the people of Mexico, the Halls of Montezuma are much more than the words of a song; they represent a humiliating military defeat at the hands of the United States in 1847. Not even the 1862 victory over France that Mexico celebrates today -- Cinco de Mayo -- is enough to fully heal the wound. Mo Rocca tells the story: Every year, in a small cemetery in Mexico City, 750 unknown American soldiers who died in the Mexican-American War are remembered. That conflict marked a dark chapter in the long relations between our countries, said U.S. Ambassador Earl Anthony Wayne.