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16 hours ago · 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)
5 days ago · Following his service in the Mexican War, Cortina actively protested the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and its treatment of ethnically Mexican landowners, leading to a series of violent clashes along the U.S.-Mexico Border (Cortina Wars, 1859-1863). In 1861, Cortinistas were defeated by Confederate Captain Santos Benavides, thus leading to ...
- Shannon Pensa
- 2017
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5 days ago · The Thornton Affair, also known as the Thornton Skirmish, served as one of the most consequential fights in American history. On April 25, 1846, Americans and Mexicans found themselves in a standoff near the Rio Grande, just north of present-day Brownsville, Texas. The incident escalated tensions between the United States and Mexico, ultimately leading to war. On the morning of April 25, 1846 ...
3 days ago · The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the Mexican-American War in 1848, ceded 525,000 square miles--55% of--Mexican territory to the United States. In exchange, the United States paid approximately $15 million in damages to pay for destruction of Mexican property by the U.S. military during the war.
5 days ago · "The Greenwood Library of American War Reporting presents a unique and unfiltered presentation of American History from colonial days to the present through annotated primary documents of journalists and reporters writing as events occured." ABC-Clio
1 day ago · The American Civil War was the culmination of the struggle between the advocates and opponents of slavery that dated from the founding of the United States. This sectional conflict between Northern states and slaveholding Southern states had been tempered by a series of political compromises, but by the late 1850s the issue of the extension of slavery to the western states had reached a ...
5 days ago · The northern boundary was amicably established by an Anglo-American convention in 1818. It established the 49° parallel N between the Lake of the Woods and the Rocky Mountains as the American-Canadian border. The Rocky (then referred to as “Stony”) Mountains were accepted as the western limit of the Louisiana Territory, and the Mississippi ...
