Need help with the big words? How about "yes" or "no" in answer to my question?
Let's try this:
Texas had been an independent, self-governing republic for 10 years- -since March 2, 1836 when it declared independence. Mexico refused to recognize its independence; the fact was that Texans and not Mexico City governed Texas. An act by the Mexican Congress had no more validity in Texas than an a decree by the Chinese gov't has in the US now.
At the request of Texas, Texas was annexed by the United States on Feb. 28, 1845. As early as August 1843, Santa Anna's government had informed the United States that it would "consider equivalent to a declaration of war . . . the passage of an act for the incorporation of Texas." On March 1, 1845, Congress jointly resolved to admit Texas into the Union and the Mexican Government promptly broke off diplomatic relations. Mexico declared war on April 23, 1846. The first battle of the war was a Mexican attack on American troops along the southern border of Texas on Apr. 25, 1846. Two other Mexican attacks on US troops on US soil took place before any American military action.
The Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo, signed on Feb. 2, 1848, about 6 months after US General Winfield Scott occupied Mexico City, ended the war.
All those was done on the Mexican side under the inspired leadership of the demagogue Santa Ana, whom the Mexicans seemingly could not resist at the time, but now consider to have been a disaster.
The war was hardly without cost to Americans. Approximately 1.5 percent of total US Army troops were killed in the fighting, and nearly 10 percent died of disease; another 12 percent were wounded or discharged because of disease or both. For years afterward, Mexican War veterans continued to suffer from the debilitating diseases contracted during the campaigns. The casualty rate was thus easily over 25 percent for the 17 months of the war; the total casualties may have reached 35-40 percent if later injury- and disease-related deaths are added. In this respect the war was the most disastrous in American military history.
But since we're here: I presume you're part Spanish. Now just who was it they conquered and enslaved in Mexico when they came?
And the Indian part of mestizo? Did it push it any other Indians out when it came into Mexico?
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