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Nov 9, 2009 · The Mexican-American War Begins. On April 25, 1846, Mexican cavalry attacked a group of U.S. soldiers in the disputed zone under the command of General Zachary Taylor, killing about a dozen. They ...
Mar 28, 2024 · 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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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. It followed the 1845 American annexation of Texas, which Mexico still considered its territory because Mexico refused to ...
- April 25, 1846 – February 2, 1848, (1 year, 9 months, 1 week and 1 day)
A Mexican force crossed the river at Palo Alto, and a battle took place on May 8, followed the next day by the Battle of Resaca de la Palma. Polk claimed to Congress that Mexico had “invaded our territory and shed American blood on American soil.”. The United States declared war on Mexico on May 13. The war stirred nationalistic feelings in ...
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 ...
This list presents some of the key facts of the Mexican-American War, from its origins following the United States’ annexation of Texas (1845) to major turning points in the conflict, including the Battle of Buena Vista in February 1847 and the capture of Mexico City by U.S. forces seven months later.
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed in February 1848, was a triumph for American expansionism under which Mexico ceded nearly half its land to the United States. The Mexican Cession, as the conquest of land west of the Rio Grande was called, included the current states of California, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and portions of ...
