It was caused by US Cavalry troops bumping into a large force of encamped Mexican Army soldiers in the area known as the Neuces Strip. Shots were fired and men died in what is known as the Thornton Affair.
After the US annexation of Mexico President Polk ordered the US Army to defend Texas at the Rio Grande border. A clash between US Forces and the Mexican Army became highly likely in the Neuces Strip with two opposing Armies patrolling the same ground, They met, shots were fired and men died. It was called the Thornton Affair and the US Congress declared War.
Border conflicts and the failure of Mexico to negotiate the sale of Alta California and Nuevo Mexico to the United States.
Mexican American War
The Mexican cession was the outcome of the Mexican American war.
The mexican-american war
it was right and Mexican won the war
Yes, Veracruz was a major part of the Mexican American War.
Texas.
He created the conditions that caused the war.
Mexican American War
The Mexican cession was the outcome of the Mexican American war.
The Mexican-American War was not unnecessary.
It did not affect it directly but the war caused an out come that was great. it affected the entire country
The Mexican-American War began
No, the Mexican American War began in 1846.
The annexation of Texas as a US state in 1846 directly led to the war, but US ambitions toward the Mexican lands in the West were the driving force for the conflict.
The provisions of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo after the Mexican American War.
JFK fought in the Mexican American war
No the Mexican American War was from 1846 to 1848.