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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
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 ...
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)
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 ...
Jun 11, 2018 · The Mexican-American War commenced on May 13, 1846, after President James Knox Polk (1795 – 1849) pressured Congress for an immediate declaration of war on Mexico. The road to war with Mexico represents a complicated period in U.S. history. By late 1845 political upheaval between the Whigs and the Democrats had reached a crescendo in Congress.
The Mexican government declared war on April 23, 1846. Congress responded in kind on May 13. Fighting had already begun. Taylor moved west into the heart of Mexico, winning several bloody victories. On February 24, 1847, at Buena Vista, his army drove back a vastly larger Mexican force commanded by Santa Anna himself.
