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Mexican victory. Mexican defeat. Ceasefire or other result. Ongoing conflict. See also. Mexico in World War I. List of ongoing armed conflicts. Timeline of Mexican War of Independence. Notes. ^ 1805, 1809, 1813–1815.
ConflictCombatant 1Combatant 2ResultsSpanish conquest of the Tarascan empire ...Spain New Spain Indian auxiliariesVictory Incorporation of the territory ...Spanish conquest of Chiapas (c. 1523 – c.Spain New Spain Indian auxiliariesZoque people Chiapaneca people ...Victory Incorporation of Chiapas into the ...Spanish conquest of Guatemala (1524–1667) ...Spain New Spain Indian auxiliariesIndependent indigenous kingdoms and ...Victory Creation of the Captaincy General ...Spanish conquest of El Salvador ...Spain New Spain Indian auxiliariesIndigenous peoples of El Salvador, ...VictoryAug 26, 2019 · Mexican forces, led by General Antonio López de Santa Anna, invaded the disputed region and crushed the defenders at the Battle of the Alamo in March of 1836. Santa Anna was soundly defeated by General Sam Houston at the Battle of San Jacinto in April of 1836, however, and Texas won its independence. Read More.
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)
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- Pre-Hispanic Era, Before 1519
- Spanish Conquest of Mexico
- Colonial-Era Control Without A Standing Military
- Establishment of A Standing Military, 18th C.
- Mexican War of Independence, 1810–1821
- First Mexican Empire and Its Overthrow, 1822–1823
- Early Republic
- Era of The Liberal Reform
- Porfiriato
- Mexican Revolution 1910–1920
Before the arrival of Europeans in 1492, there were many large-scale civilizations in Mesoamerica that had engaged in conquest of rival powers. As civilizations arose, traditional raiding to plunder resources evolved into full-scale conquests between 300 BCE and 150 BCE, with occupying forces that could direct tribute from the conquered to the conq...
The two-year Spanish conquest of the Aztec empire (1519–1521) is the most famous episode of Spanish conquest history. It is documented in the sixteenth century by both Spaniards, their indigenous allies, and indigenous opponents shortly after the events. With arrival of Spaniards in the Caribbean in 1492, they developed patterns of conquest and set...
Not until the Spanish empire was by foreign conquest in the eighteenth century did the Spanish crown establish a standing military. Conquests of the central Mexican indigenous civilizations was basically final in the sixteenth century, with the conquest of the Maya region more protracted. Spaniards who had participated in the conquest of central Me...
In the eighteenth century, the rise of rival European empires, particularly the British, threatened Spanish control of its lucrative overseas colonies. The 1762 British capture of Havana, Cuba and Manila, the Philippines in the Seven Years' War, prompted the Spanish crown to protect its colony of Mexico by establishing a standing military. The exte...
Events in the late 18th and early 19th centuries may be best summed as to have caused the fight against the Spanish. The Criollos, or American-born rather than Spaniards born in Spain (Peninsulares) had since the eighteen-century Bourbon reforms been passed over for high posts in the civil and ecclesiastical structures; mixed-race castas and indige...
In 1821 Agustín de Iturbide, a former Spanish general who switched sides to fight for Mexican independence, proclaimed himself emperor – officially as a temporary measure until a member of European royalty could be persuaded to become monarch of Mexico (see First Mexican Empire for more information). A revolt against Iturbide in 1823 established th...
Spanish attempts to reconquer Mexico, 1821–29
Spain did not reconcile itself to the loss of its valuable colony, refusing to acknowledge the Treaty of Cordoba. Spain initiated military efforts to reconquer it during the 1820s. A criollo military officer who emerged as a hero of Mexican nationalism was Antonio López de Santa Anna. In defending Mexico's independence, Santa Anna lost a leg in battle, which became the visible symbol of his sacrifices for the nation. He capitalized on this reputation to forward his political career. The early...
Pastry War, 1838
In 1838 a French pastry cook, Monsieur Remontel, claimed his shop in the Tacubaya district of Mexico City had been ruined by looting Mexican officers in 1828. He appealed to France's King Louis-Philippe (1773–1850). Coming to its citizen's aid, France demanded 600,000 pesos in damages. This amount was extremely high when compared to an average workman's daily pay, which was about one peso. In addition to this amount, Mexico had defaulted on millions of dollars worth of loans from France. Dipl...
Texas Revolution, 1835–1836
The Texan struggle for independence marked the beginning of a conflict with the modern U.S. state of Texas, and its independence from Mexico and the state of Coahuila y Tejas. Battles associated with the conflict with Texas include the Alamo, where federal troops led by Antonio López de Santa Anna defeated the Texans, and the Battle of San Jacinto, which allowed secession to take place. Revolts erupted throughout several states after Santa Anna's rise to power. The revolution in Texas began i...
This period was the only one in the nineteenth century with civilian control of the government, but it was not a peaceful era, with a civil war and the foreign invasion of the French and monarchy supported by Mexico's Conservatives, followed by the restoration of the Liberal Republic.
General Díaz came to the presidency by coup, and then there was an election after the fact. The thirty years of his presidency, known as the Porfiriato, was a self-proclaimed era of "Order and Progress." Díaz brought order, sometimes through brutal suppression of uprisings, that gave entrepreneurs confidence to invest in Mexico's modernization. In ...
Revolutionary forces defeat Díaz
The decade-long conflict of the Mexican Revolution saw the Mexican Federal Army pitted against the coalition of revolutionary forces in northern Mexico, the Constitutionalist Army led by Venustiano Carranza, and the armed peasantry in the south, led by Emiliano Zapata. The outbreak of the Revolution was a protest against the three-decade regime of Porfirio Díaz. It was unexpectedly successful in ousting Díaz in 1911, a surprise even to the revolutionary forces.
Military and the Madero, 1911-13
Although revolutionary forces brought Francisco I. Madero to power, Madero dismissed them and retained the Federal Army that had just been defeated. The Federal Army suppressed a number of rebellions against Madero, following his election as president in November 1911, by revolutionary general Pascual Orozco. The army failed to suppress an on-going rebellion in the south, led by Zapata. Army generals increasingly saw the Madero regime as weak and ineffective, and intervened, staging a coup in...
Formation of the Constitutionalist Army
The reaction to this was an uprising in the north of Mexico, with the Governor of Coahuila, Venustiano Carranza declaring the Huerta regime illegitimate and becoming the "First Chief" of the Constitutionalist Army. Two brilliant natural soldiers, Pancho Villa and Alvaro Obregón, rose to command armies that soundly defeated Huerta's Federal Army in 1914. Huerta resigned in July 1914, and Carranza insisted on the dissolution of the Federal Army. Zapata had continued guerrilla warfare in Morelos...
Jan 15, 2017 · Wars of Mexico: From Independence to the Present. Mexican Flag. Mexican War of Independence (1810-1821)--A complex conflict in which Mexico gained independence from Spain. Central American Federation War of independence (1822-1823)--The brief Mexican Empire under Emperor Iturbide lost control of Central America in a short war in which the ...
The army acquitted itself exceptionally well during the campaign. The main invasion force under Gen. Winfield Scott landed at Veracruz in March 1847 and scored a string of victories culminating in the capture of Mexico City in September 1847.
Omar Valerio-Jiménez. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.013.23. Published online: 22 December 2016. Summary. The United States–Mexico War was the first war in which the United States engaged in a conflict with a foreign nation for the purpose of conquest.
