Fifty-Four Forty or Fight
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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FIFTY-FOUR FORTY OR FIGHT in U.S. history, phrase commonly used by extremists in the controversy with Great Britain over the Oregon country. The rights of the United States, they maintained, extended to the whole region, i.e., to lat...