James K. Polk prevailed instead, and he annexed Texas and started the Mexican War.
Nicknamed "old rough and ready" he won the presidency after his heroics in the Mexican War of 1846-48.
The U.S. military bought 1, 000 of this model, all of which were used to fight the Mexican war.
During the U.S-Mexican War in the 1840s ABS gave copies of the holy book to both Mexican and American forces.
The discovery of gold in 1849 outside Sacramento and the annexation of the state after the Mexican War attracted venturesome souls of diverse backgrounds.
The Mexican War, where many officers cut their teeth, looms large.
When I see the absence of outrage or even apparent embarrassment among so many Americans at the violence of militant Zionism I am reminded of the night Thoreau spent locked up because of his quiet protest against the Mexican War.
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.
Consider the country's national anthem, written after the 1840s Mexican-American War in which Mexico lost half its territory.
Victory in the Mexican-American war in the late 1840s led to the first big influx of Mexicans to the United States.
But a prominent opponent of the drug war, Mexican poet Javier Sicilia, declined to take part in the ceremony.
In light of this visit an update is useful in understanding how the ongoing war the Mexican government is waging against the drug cartels has major significance for the national security of the United States.
Predictably, it triggered a new declaration by the Mexican government of a new war on drugs.
He did this after the 1987 stock crash, the Gulf War, the Mexican peso crisis, the Asian financial crises and the failure of one of the largest hedge funds.
Instead, within days of taking office he mobilized the Mexican military for an all-out war against the drug cartels.
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Clay proved to be exactly right, and indeed Polk used the dispute over Texas as a pretext to start a broader war with Mexico and seize Mexican territory.
U.S. officials have praised growing cooperation with the Mexican government as a key weapon in the war on drugs.
The Mexican public does not believe that the government is winning the war against the cartels.
In the 100 years since the Mexican Revolution, one part of Mexico has often been at war with another: urban vs. rural, rich vs. poor and, yes, dark-skinned vs. light-skinned.
Mexican and French soldiers will not be doing any dying once the war finally does start.
Former Mexican president, Vicente Fox, has called for an end to the war on drugs.
Unlike the PAN, whose leaders seem obsessed with causes and crusades -- for Fox, defending Mexican immigrants in the United States, and for Calderon, the drug war -- the PRI kept the trains running on time.
The flow of U.S. guns south, as Mexican drugs come north, has emerged as rival cartels increasingly wage a brutal war for control of smuggling routes, analysts said.
The four decades following America's first Gilded Age in the 1870s were pocked with dislocation: multiple financial panics, the Spanish-American War, the Boer War, the Russo-Japanese War, the fall of the Manchu dynasty, the onset of the Mexican Revolution and Otto von Bismarck's German makeover.
These columns have long tried sympathetically to explain Mexican realities to our readers, but President Vicente Fox's U.N. war straddle will cost his country years of U.S. public goodwill.
The meaning of the holiday changed over time, becoming a David versus Goliath tale among Mexican immigrants in the 1930s and embodying U.S.-Mexico unity during World War II and Chicano Power in the 1960s and 1970s, Hayes-Bautista said.
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