Worth, during the Mexican-American War.1855. Library of Congress ... he sent American troops to Texas in January of 1846 to provoke the Mexicans into war. When the Mexicans fired on American ...

The Mexican War, declared on May 12,1846, was political, sectional, imperial. The Southern annexationist wing of President Polk’s Democrats had led the fight to admit Texas as a slave state.

This was never truer than in the post Mexican American War (1846-1848) era where the volunteers were discharged from Federal service and the authorized numbers of U.S. Soldiers were decreased to ...

Why it matters: The response, using a troubled history of the U.S.-Mexican War in 1846-8, signaled that the Sheinbaum administration would not be intimidated by Trump's antics and threats.

When Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum took office last year, she faced a daunting set of political and economic challenges: rising debt, fiscal deficits, rampant drug-cartel violence and an ...

Guardino (Indiana) manages to offer the reader a more nuanced account of the 1846-1848 war between the ... States was able to bring to the war. The Dead March breaks much new ground in the history of ...

Worth, during the Mexican-American War.1855. Library of Congress ... he sent American troops to Texas in January of 1846 to provoke the Mexicans into war. When the Mexicans fired on American ...