You might want to read up on the history of the US in Latin America. Shortly before the Civil War we sent in the
Marines to take Mexico City and acquired California, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico in the process.
Thanks for the invite. My reading tells me that Mexico, as well as the places you mention, all belonged to Spain until Mexico revolted from Spain (independent in 1821.)
Nice clean demarcation between Spanish territory and Louisiana (all the way to the Pacific, if you know your Louisiana history) probably because the Bourbon kings of Spain were buddy-buddy with their cousins in France, and kept their noses clean after Napoleon)(probably due to force?)
OK, so moving right along, the new Mexican government wants settlers tout suite but nobody whom we'd call Mexican at this far remove wants to settle in Texas (too arid). So they let Kaintucks, Yankees, Cajuns, and other riff-raff (Sam Houston, Jim Bowie, Davie Crockett and other such white trash, with slaves) move into Texas. Western border of Texas remains nebulous.
Same white trash seceded from Mexico in 1835 and established the nation of Texas. Which, in 1845, was admitted as a state.
Question was, where did Texas end? (Everyone knew where it began, based on that same sharp demarcation that the Bourbon cousin-kings worked out prior to the Seven Years War (War of Jenkins' Ear, French and Indian War). Did it go all the way to the Pacific? Or end somewhere in the desert? When the Bourbon cousins were making the maps, it went all the way to the Pacific.
How to resolve?
Yes, there was a battle, but who invaded whom? Did the Mexicans invade America or vice versa?
As for Grenada, that fell squarely within the Monroe Doctrine. Can't remember the name of the Grenadan (Grenadian?) politician who asked us to invade (senior moments) just remember that it was a woman. I think she wore glasses but that is really taxing my memory. Prime minister? There was a revolt. Sorry, I'll try to massage the old frontal lobe.
Edit: this might be it: Mary Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica and Chairman of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States, urged US invasion of Grenada:
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