#OnThisDay in 1847, #ZacharyTaylor engaged Mexican troops at the Battle of Buena Vista, scoring a victory that helped win the #MexicanWar & hence all of what is now the southwestern US in a war #AbrahamLincoln considered deeply immoral...
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#Mexico & the US ended the #MexicanWar #OnThisDay in 1848 with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which confirmed acquisition of territory that increased the size of the US by 25%; as migrants like to say, "We didn't cross the border, the border crossed us~!"
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The Training Ground: Mexican War, 1846–1848
"Few historical figures are as inextricably linked as Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee."
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#History #CivilWar #MexicanWar #Biographies #Military #Nonfiction #Books #BookSky
#Commodore Peter Turner
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#USNavy #Lieutenant, #MexicanWar, #CivilWar; Governor of the Naval Asylum
February 17, 1803- February 19, 1871
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#JamesKnoxPolk was born #OnThisDay in 1795; elected in 1844, Polk vastly expanded the US through the #MexicanWar — which Abraham Lincoln considered immoral — the greatest expansion of US territory in American #history after the Louisiana Purchase by Thomas Jefferson:
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"Our parson is not afraid of Yankee bullets, and I tell you he preaches like hell." - Andrew J. Grigsby
#AmericanCivilWar #MexicanWar #USVeteran #Veteran #WordsOfVeterans
Reading a new book I'm hugely excited about while grilling in the yard. Mexican officer is a reflection of current heatwave.
The more I read about certain military conflicts, the more I get interested in just everyday life not only for the soldiers, but regular people
#mexicanwar #sharppractice
Mexico in 1846
Congress declared war on Mexico #OnThisDay in 1846 in a dispute over Texas; in the #MexicanWar, the US seized what is now the entire southwest of the country & Mexicans now coming into the southwest are in fact crossing a border that didn't exist in 1846...
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Mexican War
Congress declared war on Mexico #OnThisDay in 1846 in a dispute over Texas; in the #MexicanWar, the US seized what is now the entire southwest of the country. Abraham Lincoln considered this shabby little war illegitimate...
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@hansbot Always been. Always will be.
#ContraGate #TonkinIncident #WMD #Allende #MexicanWar #PhillipinesCampaign #CIATortureProgram
To take one of the most egregious examples, issues of #imperialism were clearly present during the #MexicanWar under President #JamesPolk, who was trying to subject the predominantly foreign population of California, New Mexico, and possibly all of Mexico to American rule. #ushistory #morrisberman
#Mexico & the US ended the #MexicanWar #OnThisDay in 1848 with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which confirmed acquisition of territory that increased the size of the US by 25%; as migrants like to say, "We didn't cross the border, the border crossed us~!"
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#Canada question, concerning the opening salvos of what could end in a shooting war b/t the #US and CAN: despite 1982’s #patriation, CAN remains a constitutional monarchy, with King Ch. 3 as its head of state. Would the #UK respond in kind were the #US tempted a #MexicanWar style invasion? & #NATO?
Mexican War
James Polk
#JamesKnoxPolk was born #OnThisDay in 1795 & elected president in 1844; he used the #MexicanWar to acquire the Southwest & Mexicans entering the Southwest are really just migrating to what was the northern part of Mexico before 1848... #ManifestDestiny
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US territorial acquisitions by president
Congress declared war on Mexico #OnThisDay in 1846 in a dispute over Texas; in the #MexicanWar, the US seized what is now the entire southwest of the country. Mexicans now coming into the southwest are in fact crossing a border that didn't exist in 1846...
www.history.com/this-day-in-...
#Mexico & the US ended the #MexicanWar #OnThisDay in 1848 with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which confirmed acquisition of territory that increased the size of the US by 25%; as migrants like to say, "We didn't cross the border, the border crossed us~!"
www.history.com/this-day-in-...
