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2 days ago · Ex-slave and prominent anti-slavery advocate Frederick Douglass opposed the Mexican–American War. In the United States, increasingly divided by sectional rivalry, the war was a partisan issue and an essential element in the origins of the American Civil War.
- Battles of The Mexican–American War
The Mexican–American War lasted from 1846 until 1848. It...
- Mexican Cession
A map of Mexico, 1835–1846, with separatist movements...
- List of U.S. Army, Navy, and Volunteer Units in The Mexican–American War
This is a list of United States military units that...
- Texas Annexation
The boundaries of the United States and neighboring nations...
- California Republic
The California Republic (Spanish: República de California),...
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- John Riley
John Patrick Riley (also known as John Patrick O'Riley)...
- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo [a] officially ended the...
- Battles of The Mexican–American War
2 days ago · A series of unsuccessful revolts culminated in a successful plot in February 1913. From February 9 to February 18, 1913—known in Mexican history as the Decena Trágica (“Ten Tragic Days”)—downtown Mexico City was converted into a battle zone.
4 days ago · The Mexican Revolution was a complicated transformation of Mexican society and politics that lasted from November 1910 to May 1920. The country broke up into competing factions initially to overthrow longtime dictator Porfirio Díaz.
- Shannon Pensa
- 2017
2 days ago · This was evident at the outset of Latin America’s bloodiest 20th-century civil conflict, the Mexican Revolution of 1910, when a dissident member of the large landowning class, Francisco Madero, challenged Díaz for reelection, lost, and rose in rebellion, promising to bring genuine political democracy to Mexico.
4 days ago · The Mexican state of Sinaloa has been plagued by violence and insecurity since Monday, September 9, when an internal war broke out between the two most powerful factions of the notorious cartel: the followers of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, versus Los Chapitos, the sons of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán. The fracture has sown chaos in ...
2 days ago · The Cristero War (Spanish: La Guerra Cristera), also known as the Cristero Rebellion or La Cristiada [la kɾisˈtjaða], was a widespread struggle in central and western Mexico from 3 August 1926 to 21 June 1929 in response to the implementation of secularist and anticlerical articles of the 1917 Constitution.
4 days ago · Mexico became an active belligerent in World War II in 1942 after Germany sank two of its tankers. The Mexican foreign secretary, Ezequiel Padilla, took the lead in urging other Latin American countries to support the Allies as well. A Mexican–North American joint defense committee planned cooperative operations to be carried out in case the ...
