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3 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 the Pacific Ocean.
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The Mexican–American War, [a] also known in the United States as the Mexican War, and in Mexico as the United States intervention in Mexico, [b] 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)
Nov 9, 2009 · The Mexican-American War of 1846 to 1848 marked the first U.S. armed conflict chiefly fought on foreign soil. It pitted a politically divided and militarily unprepared Mexico against the ...
May 14, 2020 · 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. Thus, ending the war which began as a border dispute. The peace treaty between the ...
Jul 3, 2019 · By. Christopher Minster. Updated on July 03, 2019. From 1846 to 1848, the United States of America and Mexico fought the Mexican-American War. There were many causes of the war, but the biggest reasons were Mexico's lingering resentment over the loss of Texas and the Americans' desire for Mexico's western lands, such as California and New Mexico.
The Mexican-American War was formally concluded by the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo. The United States received the disputed Texan territory, as well as New Mexico territory and California. The Mexican government was paid $15 million — the same sum issued to France for the Louisiana Territory. The United States Army won a grand victory.
