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4 days ago · 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 damned by its contemporary critics as expansionist, it resulted in the U.S. gaining more than 500,000 square miles (1,300,000 square km) of Mexican territory extending westward from the Rio Grande to ...
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Nov 9, 2009 · Topics. 19th Century. Mexican-American War. By: History.com Editors. Updated: August 10, 2022 | Original: November 9, 2009. copy page link. Print Page. Universal History Archive/Getty Images. The...
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.
- April 25, 1846 – February 2, 1848, (1 year, 9 months, 1 week and 1 day)
May 14, 2020 · A Brief Overview of the Mexican-American War 1846-1848. Two long years had passed after the initial shots were fired, sparking the Mexican American War in 1846. After United States forces under General Winfield Scott captured and occupied Mexico City in 1848, Mexican President Antonio López de Santa Anna surrendered.
Nov 9, 2009 · The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 ended the Mexican-American War, with much of the current U.S. Southwest ceded to the United States from Mexico.
