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Palo Alto and the start of the US-Mexico War

Imagine cannons booming, muskets crackling, and the spirit of adventure hanging heavy over the rugged plains of Texas. Then, in the spring of 1846, the fuse finally burned down. What followed was the ...
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Chronicles of the gringos : the U.S. Army in the Mexican War, 1846-1848 ; accounts of eyewitnesses & combatants / edited with an introduction, commentaries, and notes by George ...

An army in the making -- The Taylor campaign: Corpus Christi to Buena Vista -- Manifest destiny: war in the west -- The Vera Cruz expedition -- Scott's Invasion: Vera Cruz to Mexico City -- Life in ...
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The literatures of the U.S.-Mexican War narrative, time, and identity by Jaime Javier Rodríguez

La biblioteca recibi©đ apoyo federal del Fondo de Inciativas Latinas, administrado por el Museo Nacional del Latino Estadounidense. Library purchase through the Smithsonian Latino Initiatives Pool, ...
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The U.S.-Mexican War - Episode Two: The War for the Borderlands

In 1846, U.S. soldiers set out to conquer Mexican territory and Pres. Polk sets aim on Mexico City. In June of 1846, an army of 1600 soldiers begin a 900-mile march to conquer the Mexican territory of ...