The National Park Service's (NPS) Midwest Archeological Center (MWAC) and Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park (PAAL) staff, along with instructors and participants of the 2011 NPS ...
Print shows a scene from the Battle of Monterrey, led by General Zachary Taylor and General William J. Worth, during the Mexican-American War.1855. Library of Congress. In 1844, President James K.
It was July 7, 1846, and the Mexican American War was in full swing. On that Tuesday morning, a small force of U.S. Sailors and Marines landed on a narrow beach near the Mexican government custom ...
An army in the making -- The Taylor campaign: Corpus Christi to Buena Vista -- Manifest destiny: war in the west -- The Vera Cruz expedition -- Scott's Invasion: Vera Cruz to Mexico City -- Life in ...
The accord that formally ended the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) radically altered the destinies of both countries. So crushing was the defeat of Mexico that the United States demanded and received ...
In 1845, President John Tyler signed a Congressional resolution to annex Texas, and by 1846, 4,000 troops were on the Rio Grande. Shortly thereafter, President James Polk proposed that Mexico sell its ...
The brief and not very glorious annals of the Mexican War (1846-48) include certain quaintly sketchy chapters on U. S. naval operations in California. Men-of-war from England, France, Russia and the U ...
The Mexican-American War of 1846-1848 will be forever overshadowed by the immensities of the subsequent Civil War. Yet the earlier war, which ended 13 years before the great and bloody contest over ...
James Allen, a Mexican War veteran from Wilmot, was a man who possessed strong opinions and wasn't afraid to share them with people with whom he disagreed. Shortly before the start of the Civil War, ...
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