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Mexican-American War: United States
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Primary Source Accounts of the Mexican-American War [P]resents personal accounts of American men and women in battle and on the homefront. It ... includes songs, speeches, poetry, newspaper accounts, and photographs that reflect the larger culture of the time. From the Battle of Palo Alto to the Battle of Chapultepec, the book presents the war in personal detail, as recorded by soldiers and civilians. A special chapter focuses on the San Patricio Battalion, composed primarily of Irish soldiers who left the American army to fight for the Mexican cause. As a result of the war, the United States gained almost all of the land that makes up the present-day American Southwest.
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The causes of the Mexican-American War can be traced back to Texas winning its independence from Mexico in 1836. After the end of the war, Mexico refused to acknowledge the new Republic of Texas, but was prevented from taking military action due to the United States, Great Britain, and France conferring diplomatic recognition. For the next nine years, many in Texas favored joining the United States... Washington did not take action due to fears of increasing sectional conflict and angering the Mexicans.
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Abstract: During the Mexican-American War, Colonel Alexander W. Doniphan and his Missouri volunteer regiment helped to fulfill U.S. strategic goals. They captured New Mexico, and Doniphan supervised the first American military government in captured enemy territory. Subsequently, Doniphan's campaign into the state of Chihuahua contributed to the U.S. cordon offensive of 1847.
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The United States had offered $25 million dollars for the land later seized in the Mexican American War. In the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Mexico lost half it's territory to the United States and in return received $18.6 million dollars in restitution. The war served to provide the United States with two important Pacific Ports; San Francisco and San Diego. (the pueblo of Los Angeles was so small at the time it didn't matter) For Mexico, it was a significant blow to it's position in the western hemisphere but the war served to provided a unifying factor to the states of the country that had been missing since the independence movement some years before. About 1700 Americans were killed in combat, another 11,300 died of disease and about 4100 were wounded. The Mexican losses were estimated around 25,000 of which about 2500 were civilians.
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