Mexican War

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Mexican War

A war (1846-1848) between the United States and Mexico, resulting in the cession by Mexico of lands now constituting all or most of the states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado.

Mexican War

(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the war fought between the US and Mexico (1846-48), through which the US acquired the present-day Southwest

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Mexican War - after disputes over Texas lands that were settled by Mexicans the United States declared war on Mexico in 1846 and by treaty in 1848 took Texas and California and Arizona and New Mexico and Nevada and Utah and part of Colorado and paid Mexico $15,000,000

Buena Vista - a pitched battle in the Mexican War in 1847; United States forces under Zachary Taylor defeated the Mexican forces under Santa Anna at a locality in northern Mexico

Chapultepec - a pitched battle in the Mexican War that resulted in a major victory for American forces over Mexican forces at a locality south of Mexico City (1847)

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Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna Buena Vista Cerro Gordo Chapultepec Guadalupe Hidalgo James K. Polk James Knox Polk James Polk Matamoros Mexico Monterrey Nuevo Laredo Palo Alto Polk President Polk Querétaro Saltillo Santa Ana			In this same year Henry Clay delivered his memorable speech on the Mexican War, at Lexington, Kentucky, and it was telegraphed to The New York Herald at a cost of five hundred dollars, thus breaking all previous records for news-gathering enterprise. The History of the Telephone by Casson, Herbert N. View in context Witness the present Mexican war, the work of comparatively a few individuals using the standing government as their tool; for in the outset, the people would not have consented to this measure. Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context			Mexican hog Mexican husk tomato Mexican hyssop Mexican ivy vine Mexican jumping bean Mexican juniper Mexican lac Mexican mint Mexican monetary unit Mexican nut pine Mexican onyx Mexican peso Mexican pocket mouse Mexican poppy Mexican Revolution Mexican Spanish Mexican standoff Mexican sunflower Mexican swamp cypress Mexican tea Mexican tiger Mexican truffle Mexican tulip poppy Mexican turnip Mexican valium Mexican War Mexican wave Mexican-American Mexicanize Mexicano Mexico Mexico City mexiletine Mexitil Meyer Meyer Guggenheim Meyerbeer Meyerhof Meyerhold Meyne MEZ mezcal mezcaline meze mezereon mezereum Mézières Mezquita Mezuza mezuzah Mezza majolica			Mexican Spiny Pocket Mouse Mexican spotted fever Mexican Spotted Owl Mexican Spotted Owl Mexican stand-off Mexican standoff Mexican stock exchange Mexican sunflower Mexican swamp cypress Mexican Talent Network Mexican tea Mexican tea Mexican territory before Louisiana Purchase Mexican territory before Louisiana Purchase Mexican territory before Louisiana Purchase Mexican tiger Mexican truffle Mexican truffle Mexican tulip poppy Mexican turnip Mexican turnip Mexican typhus Mexican United States Mexican United States Mexican valium Mexican valium Mexican Virtual Solar Observatory Mexican walking fish Mexican walking fish Mexican walking fish Mexican War Mexican wave Mexican waves Mexican weeping juniper Mexican whorled milkweed Mexican whorled milkweed Mexican Wolf Adaptive Management Oversight Committee Mexican Workshop of Particles and Fields Mexican-American Mexican-American Bar Association of Texas Mexican-American Bar Foundation Mexican-American Paratroopers Association Mexican-American Political Association Mexican-American War Mexican-American War Mexican-American Youth Organization Mexican-americans Mexican-tea Mexicana Mexicana Mexicanize Mexicano Mexicano Mexicano American Mexicano Americano Mexicano de Interacción Humano-Computadora Mexicano Del Pacifico Mexicano-american Mexicanos Mexicanos

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