The U.S. Navy established its first foreign base, a coaling station at Pichilinque, Mexico, on Baja California.
The location has previously been used by the Navy during the Mexican War. Baja was otherwise unoccupied by the US during the war, interestingly enough, giving a view of the 19th Century mindset.
The US changed the design for paper currency, introducing a ten dollar bill with a spectacular engraving of a Bison and also featuring Lewis and Clark flanked by two young women with see through blouses.
Erotic and semi erotic engravings of women were common on currency and seals at the time. It's hard to know now why this was the case, but it was. Indeed, it created an early controversy in Wyoming over the state seal as an early governor backed a seal with an excessively erotic topless woman over the opposition of the legislature.
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