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Nov 9, 2009 · Updated: August 10, 2022 | Original: November 9, 2009. copy page link. Print Page. Universal History Archive/Getty Images. The Mexican-American War of 1846 to 1848 marked the first U.S. armed...
The Mexican–American War, also known in the United States as the Mexican War, and in Mexico as the United States intervention in Mexico, was an invasion of Mexico by the United States Army from 1846 to 1848.
May 7, 2024 · The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Last Updated: May 7, 2024 • Article History. Mexican-American War: U.S. declaration of war. Also called: Mexican War. Spanish: Guerra de 1847 or Guerra de Estados Unidos a Mexico (“War of the United States Against Mexico”) Date: April 1846 - February 1848.
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- The Mexican-American War was a conflict between the United States and Mexico, fought from April 1846 to February 1848. Won by the Americans and dam...
- The concept of Manifest Destiny held that the United States had the providential right to expand to the Pacific Ocean. In 1845 the U.S. annexed the...
- Democrats, especially those in the Southwest, strongly favoured the Mexican-American War. Most Whigs, however, viewed the war as conscienceless lan...
- Under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which settled the Mexican-American War, the United States gained more than 500,000 square miles (1,300,000 s...
- The Mexican-American War reopened the slavery-extension issue, which divided the North and South and which had been largely dormant since the Misso...
May 14, 2020 · A Brief Overview of the Mexican-American War 1846-1848. May 14, 2020 • Updated November 29, 2023. Two long years had passed after the initial shots were fired, sparking the Mexican American War in 1846.
General Winfield Scott and Commodore Matthew C. Perry make the first successful amphibious landing in U.S. history at Veracruz, Mexico. During the siege of Veracruz, the Americans begin to fall victim to yellow fever. Scott then battles Santa Anna at Cerro Gordo, where the Mexican army is routed. May 15, 1847.
Landing of U.S. forces under Gen. Winfield Scott at Veracruz, Mexico, on March 9, 1847, during the Mexican-American War. Attack on the Castle Chapultepec, print by Nathaniel Currier, 1848. The U.S. Army, commanded by General Zachary Taylor, encamped in Mexican territory during the Mexican-American War.
