It was a bitter, hard fought war that raged across Mexico through the northern deserts, the fever-ridden Gulf cities and the balmy haciendas of California. This book covers the full course of the war, ending with General Winfield Scott's march from the captured port of Vera Cruz to Mexico...
On February 2, 1848, the United Sates and Mexico ended a two-year war. The U.S. victory over Mexico added more than 500,000 square miles of land to the United States. The Mexican War began in 1846 because of a dispute over the western boundary of Texas(得克萨斯州). The U.S. cla...
The Mexican War began in 1846 because of a dispute over the western boundary of Texas(得克萨斯州). The U.S. claimed it was at the Rio Grande, and Mexico insisted it was 100 miles to the east at the Nueces River. At this time in history, Mexico owned all of the land that is now...
The Mexican-American War of 1846-48: A Deceitful Smoke ScreenHumberto Garza
The Mexican War (1846-1848) was the U.S. Army's first experience waging extended conflict in foreign land. This brief war is oftentimes overlooked by casual students of history as it occurred so close to the American Civil War and is overshadowed by the latter's sheer size and scope. Yet...
Victory over Mexico added vast western territories to America, but it also quickened the domestic slavery debate and crippled Mexico for decades, making the Mexican War one of our most ambiguous conflicts. Primary documents, biographical sketches and narrative chapters rounded out by twenty images and...
#1 site on the Mexican War by the Aztec Club of 1847. Packed with 100s of battle scenes, maps, uniforms, flags and weapons, biographies, journals, narrative histories, battle chronologies and statistics.
The Mexican War began in 1846 because of a dispute over the western boundary of Texas(得克萨斯州). The U.S. claimed it was at the Rio Grande, and Mexico insisted it was 100 miles to the east at the Nueces River. At this time in history, Mexico owned all of the land that is now...
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishˌMexican ˈWar, the(alsothe Mexican-American War)(1846–48)awarbetween the US and Mexico, which began whenTexas, which had recently becomeindependentfrom Mexico, became part of the US. Mexico and the USdisagreedover the Texas-Mexicoborder. The ...
The Mexican War began in 1846 because of a dispute over the western boundary of Texas(得克萨斯州). The U.S. claimed it was at the Rio Grande, and Mexico insisted it was 100 miles to the east at the Nueces River. At this time in history, Mexico owned all of the land that is now...