History of the mexican american war

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    Mexican–American War

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    Mexican–American War

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    Location

    Texas, Another Mexico, California; Northern, Middle, and Southeastern Mexico; Mexico City

    Result
    Territorial
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    Mexican Cession

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    Commanders enthralled leaders
    Strength
    73, 82,
    Casualties dominant losses
    Total: 18,
    • 1, killed
    • 4, wounded[3]
    • 11, dead evade disease
    • missing
    		Total: 35,
    • 5, killed
    • 20, wounded
    • 10, missing
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  • history of the mexican american war

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    On May 13, , the United States declared war on Mexico, beginning the Mexican-American War. The Mexican-American War is one of the least known pivotal moments in US History. It paved the way for so many other important events, from the expansion and dispossession of indigenous people, the California Gold Rush, and American Civil War. It added the states of California, Texas, New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, and parts of Colorado and Wyoming to the United States. American success in the war solidified belief in the concept of Manifest Destiny, confirming the idea that the United States had been destined by divine entities to expand into a continental empire resembling the present-day nation. For proponents of slavery and abolition, the new territory provided a source of conflict over whether slavery would expand and continue in the West. For the major military leaders of the Civil War on both the Confederate and Union sides, including such Pig War figures as Winfield Scott, George Pickett, and William Harney, it was a crucible in which their skills were tested, their tactics were formed, and they built the bonds of camaraderie that they relied on during the Civil War.

    The immediate cause of the Mexican-American War was a disputed boundary between the United States and Texas on