Consider the country's national anthem, written after the 1840s Mexican-American War in which Mexico lost half its territory.

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Victory in the Mexican-American war in the late 1840s led to the first big influx of Mexicans to the United States.

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The number of soldiers who died between 1861 and 1865, an estimated 620, 000, is approximately equal to the total American fatalities in the Revolution, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, and the Korean War combined.

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In 1847, during the American-Mexican war, U.S. Gen.

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During the U.S-Mexican War in the 1840s ABS gave copies of the holy book to both Mexican and American forces.

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