Pieces of world history can be found scattered across the United States . As the story goes , during the Battle of Cerro Gordo in 1847 , the general stopped for lunch when he was surprised by advancing American troops . The first time I saw a piece of American History was in grade school when we were learning about the Revolutionary War and how it started with the Stamp Act, which basically said that you could not A near-eight-ton statue of Vladimir Lenin sits in a Seattle Park . You can find Mexican Gen. Santa Anna 's wooden leg in Springfield , Illinois .
Pieces of world history can be found scattered across the United States . The first time I saw a piece of American History was in grade school when we were learning about the Revolutionary War and how it started with the Stamp Act, which basically said that you could not A near-eight-ton statue of Vladimir Lenin sits in a Seattle Park . You can find Mexican Gen. Santa Anna 's wooden leg in Springfield , Illinois .