Roldán Vera offers an analysis of representations of the US–Mexican War in nineteenth-century Mexican and US history textbooks. Initially, she demonstrates, representations of the war were similar in the two countries, but over time American textbooks began to present the American victory as ...
including the lush northern Mexican province of California. Indeed, in 1842, a U.S. naval fleet, incorrectly believing war had broken out, seized Monterey, California, a part of Mexico. Monterey was returned the next day, but the episode...
Mexican Revolution - Huerta, US Intervention: Opposition to Huerta's despotic rule grew. Among the opposition leaders were Carranza, Villa, Obregon, and Zapata. Carranza presided over the writing of the constitution of 1917. Carranza was killed in 1920,
The first regular American fighting force, the Continental Army, was organised in June, 1775, to support militia forces in the War of Independence (1775-83). Disbanded in November, 1783, it was re-established during times of conflict such as the Mexican War (1846-48). ...
The United States invaded New Mexico in 1846. The empire's independence lasted until 1848, when the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the Mexican-American War. New Mexico achieved statehood on Jan. 6, 1912, as the 47th state. More than one-third of the land in New Mexico is protected ...
June 14, 1846 by American settlers in California who revolted against Mexican rule in California and proclaimed an independent republic. This short-lived revolution ended on July 9, 1846. They raised a bear flag that had a gold star and red stripe from "Old Glory" and a gold color silhouet...
Texas attempted several times to negotiate annexation to the United States and was finally admitted in 1845, which sparked the Mexican-American War in 1846. Mexico ultimately ceded its claim over Texas in 1848, drawing the border at the Rio Grande. Texas followed other Southern states in seceding...
The office also acknowledged that the US Army medical reporting system was incapable of detailed medical tracking during the active combat of the Mexican-American War (1846-1848). This underscores the impressive improvements and expansion of capacity required to produce the medically and militarily ...
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In August 1846, shortly after the outbreak of the Mexican-American War, Pennsylvania Rep. David Wilmot offered an amendment to a routine appropriation bill that would bar slavery from any territory gained as a result of that conflict. The effect of the Wilmot Proviso was to centre antislavery ...