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1. 427 relations: Abolitionism in the United States, Abraham Lincoln, Adams–Onís Treaty, Affair at Galaxara Pass, Afro-Mexicans, Akimel O'odham, Albert J. Beveridge, Albert Ramsey, Albert Sidney Johnston, Alexander Slidell MacKenzie, Alexander William Doniphan, Alta California, Ambrose Burnside, American Battle Monuments Commission, American Civil War, American Indian Wars, American Revolution, Amy S. Greenberg, Anatolia, Andrés Pico, Andrew Jackson, Anna McClarmonde Chase, Anne Royall, Anti-Catholicism, Antonio López de Santa Anna, Apache, Arizona, Army of the West (1846), Arroyo Hondo, Taos County, New Mexico, Atlixco, Baja California Territory, Battle for Mexico City, Battle of Buena Vista, Battle of Cañada, Battle of Cerro Gordo, Battle of Chapultepec, Battle of Churubusco, Battle of Contreras, Battle of Dominguez Rancho, Battle of El Brazito, Battle of Embudo Pass, Battle of Huamantla, Battle of La Mesa, Battle of Molino del Rey, Battle of Monterrey, Battle of Palo Alto, Battle of Providencia, Battle of Río San Gabriel, Battle of Resaca de la Palma, Battle of San Jacinto, ... Expand index (377 more) » « Shrink index

2. 1846 in Alta California
3. 1846 in Mexico
4. 1846 in the United States
5. 1847 in Alta California
6. 1847 in Mexico
7. 1847 in the United States
8. 1848 in California
9. 1848 in Mexico
10. 1848 in the United States
11. 19th-century military history
12. Conflicts in 1846
13. Conflicts in 1847
14. Conflicts in 1848
15. History of the Southwestern United States
16. Invasions by the United States
17. Pre-statehood history of Nevada
18. Pre-statehood history of New Mexico
19. Pre-statehood history of Utah
20. Presidency of James K. Polk
21. United States involvement in regime change
22. Wars fought in Arizona
23. Wars fought in California
24. Wars fought in Texas

Abolitionism in the United States

In the United States, abolitionism, the movement that sought to end slavery in the country, was active from the colonial era until the American Civil War, the end of which brought about the abolition of American slavery, except as punishment for a crime, through the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (ratified 1865).

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Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865.

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Adams–Onís Treaty

The Adams–Onís Treaty of 1819, also known as the Transcontinental Treaty, the Spanish Cession, the Florida Purchase Treaty, or the Florida Treaty,Weeks, p. 168. Mexican–American War and Adams–Onís Treaty are history of United States expansionism.

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Affair at Galaxara Pass

Affair at Galaxara Pass, November 24, 1847, was a U.S. Army victory of Gen. Mexican–American War and Affair at Galaxara Pass are 1847 in Mexico.

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Afro-Mexicans

Afro-Mexicans (afromexicanos), also known as Black Mexicans (mexicanos negros), are Mexicans who have heritage from sub-Saharan Africa and identify as such.

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Akimel O'odham

The Akimel O'odham (O'odham for "river people"), also called the Pima, are a group of Native Americans living in an area consisting of what is now central and southern Arizona, as well as northwestern Mexico in the states of Sonora and Chihuahua.

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Albert J. Beveridge

Albert Jeremiah Beveridge (October 6, 1862 – April 27, 1927) was an American historian and United States Senator from Indiana.

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Albert Ramsey

Albert C. Ramsey (c. 1813–1869) was a member of the United States military during the Mexican–American War who is most notable as the translator of Ramón Alcaraz's history of the Mexican War published as The Other Side: Or Notes for the History of the War between Mexico and the United States.

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Albert Sidney Johnston

Albert Sidney Johnston (February 2, 1803 – April 6, 1862) was an American military officer who served as a general in three different armies: the Texian Army, the United States Army, and the Confederate States Army.

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Alexander Slidell MacKenzie

Alexander Slidell MacKenzie (January 24, 1842 – June 13, 1867) was an officer in the United States Navy during the American Civil War.

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Alexander William Doniphan

Alexander William Doniphan (July 9, 1808 – August 8, 1887) was a 19th-century American attorney, soldier and politician from Missouri who is best known today as the man who prevented the summary execution of Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, at the close of the 1838 Mormon War in that state.

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Alta California

Alta California ('Upper California'), also known as Nueva California ('New California') among other names, was a province of New Spain formally established in 1804. Mexican–American War and Alta California are mexican California.

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Ambrose Burnside

Ambrose Everts Burnside (May 23, 1824 – September 13, 1881) was an American army officer and politician who became a senior Union general in the Civil War and three-time Governor of Rhode Island, as well as being a successful inventor and industrialist.

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American Battle Monuments Commission

The American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) is an independent agency of the United States government that administers, operates, and maintains permanent U.S. military cemeteries, memorials and monuments primarily outside the United States.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union. Mexican–American War and American Civil War are wars involving the United States.

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American Indian Wars

The American Indian Wars, also known as the American Frontier Wars, and the Indian Wars, was a conflict initially fought by European colonial empires, United States of America, and briefly the Confederate States of America and Republic of Texas against various American Indian tribes in North America. Mexican–American War and American Indian Wars are united States Marine Corps in the 18th and 19th centuries and wars involving the United States.

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American Revolution

The American Revolution was a rebellion and political movement in the Thirteen Colonies which peaked when colonists initiated an ultimately successful war for independence against the Kingdom of Great Britain.

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Amy S. Greenberg

Amy S. Greenberg (born 1968) is an American historian, and Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of History and Women's Studies, at Pennsylvania State University.

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Anatolia

Anatolia (Anadolu), also known as Asia Minor, is a large peninsula or a region in Turkey, constituting most of its contemporary territory.

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Andrés Pico

Andrés Pico (November 18, 1810 – February 14, 1876) was a Californio who became a successful rancher, fought in the contested Battle of San Pascual during the Mexican–American War, and negotiated promises of post-war protections for Californios in the 1847 Treaty of Cahuenga.

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Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was an American lawyer, planter, general, and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837.

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Anna McClarmonde Chase

Anna McClarmonde Chase (also Ann Chase; 1809 – 1874) was an American merchant and spy for the United States during the Mexican–American War.

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Anne Royall

Anne Royall (June 11, 1769 – October 1, 1854) was a travel writer, newspaper editor, and, by some accounts, the first professional female journalist in the United States.

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Anti-Catholicism

Anti-Catholicism, also known as Catholophobia is hostility towards Catholics and opposition to the Catholic Church, its clergy, and its adherents.

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Antonio López de Santa Anna

Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón, usually known as Antonio López de Santa Anna (21 February 1794 – 21 June 1876),Callcott, Wilfred H., "Santa Anna, Antonio Lopez De,", Retrieved 18 April 2017.

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Apache

The Apache are several Southern Athabaskan language–speaking peoples of the Southwest, the Southern Plains and Northern Mexico.

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Arizona

Arizona (Hoozdo Hahoodzo; Alĭ ṣonak) is a landlocked state in the Southwestern region of the United States.

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Army of the West (1846)

The Army of the West was the name of the United States force commanded by Stephen W. Kearny during the Mexican–American War, which played a prominent role in the conquest of New Mexico and California.

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Arroyo Hondo, Taos County, New Mexico

Arroyo Hondo is a census-designated place in Taos County near Taos, New Mexico, United States.

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Atlixco

Atlixco is a city in the Mexican state of Puebla.

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Baja California Territory

Baja California Territory (Territorio de Baja California) was a Mexican territory from 1824 to 1853, and 1854 to 1931, that encompassed the Baja California peninsula of present-day northwestern Mexico.

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Battle for Mexico City

The Battle for Mexico City refers to the series of engagements from September 8 to September 15, 1847, in the general vicinity of Mexico City during the Mexican–American War. Mexican–American War and Battle for Mexico City are 1847 in Mexico and united States Marine Corps in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Battle of Buena Vista

The Battle of Buena Vista (February 22–23, 1847), known as the Battle of La Angostura in Mexico, and sometimes as Battle of Buena Vista/La Angostura, was a battle of the Mexican–American War. Mexican–American War and battle of Buena Vista are 1847 in Mexico.

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Battle of Cañada

The Battle of Cañada was a popular insurrection against the American occupation of New Mexico by Mexicans and Pueblo Indians.

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Battle of Cerro Gordo

The Battle of Cerro Gordo, or Battle of Sierra Gordo, was an engagement in the Mexican–American War on April 18, 1847. Mexican–American War and Battle of Cerro Gordo are 1847 in Mexico.

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Battle of Chapultepec

The Battle of Chapultepec took place between a U.S. force and Mexican soldiers holding the strategically located Chapultepec Castle just outside Mexico City, fought 13 September 1847 during the Mexican–American War. Mexican–American War and Battle of Chapultepec are 1847 in Mexico and united States Marine Corps in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Battle of Churubusco

The Battle of Churubusco took place on August 20, 1847, while Santa Anna's army was in retreat from the Battle of Contreras or Battle of Padierna during the Mexican–American War. Mexican–American War and Battle of Churubusco are 1847 in Mexico.

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Battle of Contreras

The Battle of Contreras, also known as the Battle of Padierna, took place on 19–20 August 1847, in one of the final encounters of the Mexican–American War, as invading U.S. forces under Winfield Scott approached the Mexican capital. Mexican–American War and Battle of Contreras are 1847 in Mexico.

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Battle of Dominguez Rancho

The Battle of Dominguez Rancho, or the Battle of the Old Woman's Gun, was a military engagement of the Mexican–American War that took place on October 8–9, 1846, within Manuel Dominguez's 75,000 acre Rancho San Pedro. Mexican–American War and Battle of Dominguez Rancho are 1846 in Alta California and united States Marine Corps in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Battle of El Brazito

The Battle of El Brazito or Bracito took place on December 25, 1846 between the United States Army and the Mexican Army during the Mexican–American War.

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Battle of Embudo Pass

The Battle of Embudo Pass was part of the Taos Revolt, a popular insurrection against the American army's occupation of northern New Mexico.

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Battle of Huamantla

The Battle of Huamantla was a U.S. victory late in the Mexican–American War that forced the Mexican Army to lift the siege of Puebla. Mexican–American War and Battle of Huamantla are 1847 in Mexico.

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Battle of La Mesa

The Battle of La Mesa (also known as the Battle of Los Angeles) was the final battle of the California Campaign during the Mexican–American War, occurring on January 9, 1847, in present-day Vernon, California, the day after the Battle of Rio San Gabriel. Mexican–American War and battle of La Mesa are 1847 in Mexico and united States Marine Corps in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Battle of Molino del Rey

The Battle of Molino del Rey (8 September 1847) was one of the bloodiest engagements of the Mexican–American War as part of the Battle for Mexico City. Mexican–American War and Battle of Molino del Rey are 1847 in Mexico.

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Battle of Monterrey

In the Battle of Monterrey (September 21–24, 1846) during the Mexican–American War, General Pedro de Ampudia and the Mexican Army of the North was defeated by the Army of Occupation, a force of United States Regulars, Volunteers, and Texas Rangers under the command of General Zachary Taylor. Mexican–American War and Battle of Monterrey are presidency of James K. Polk.

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Battle of Palo Alto

The Battle of Palo Alto (Batalla de Palo Alto) was the first major battle of the Mexican–American War and was fought on May 8, 1846, on disputed ground five miles (8 km) from the modern-day city of Brownsville, Texas. Mexican–American War and battle of Palo Alto are 1846 in Mexico.

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Battle of Providencia

The Battle of Providencia (also called the "Second Battle of Cahuenga Pass") took place in Cahuenga Pass in early 1845 on Rancho Providencia in the San Fernando Valley, north of Los Angeles, California.

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Battle of Río San Gabriel

The Battle of Río San Gabriel was fought on 8 January 1847 during the California campaign of the Mexican–American War. Mexican–American War and Battle of Río San Gabriel are 1847 in Alta California and united States Marine Corps in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Battle of Resaca de la Palma

The Battle of Resaca de la Palma was one of the early engagements of the Mexican–American War, where the United States Army under General Zachary Taylor engaged the retreating forces of the Mexican Ejército del Norte ("Army of the North") under General Mariano Arista on May 9, 1846. Mexican–American War and Battle of Resaca de la Palma are 1846 in Mexico.

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Battle of San Jacinto

The Battle of San Jacinto (Batalla de San Jacinto), fought on April 21, 1836, in present-day La Porte and Deer Park, Texas, was the final and decisive battle of the Texas Revolution.

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Battle of San Pasqual

The Battle of San Pasqual, also spelled San Pascual, was a military encounter that occurred during the Mexican–American War in what is now the San Pasqual Valley community of the city of San Diego, California. Mexican–American War and Battle of San Pasqual are 1846 in Alta California and united States Marine Corps in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Battle of the Alamo

The Battle of the Alamo (February 23 – March 6, 1836) was a pivotal event and military engagement in the Texas Revolution.

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Bear Springs Treaty

The Bear Spring (Ojo del Oso) Treaty was signed on November 22, 1846 between Chief Narbona and 13 other Navajo leaders and Colonel Alexander Doniphan representing the US Government at Bear Springs, New Mexico in the Navajo country, near the future site of Fort Wingate. Mexican–American War and Bear Springs Treaty are 1846 in the United States and pre-statehood history of New Mexico.

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Bernard DeVoto

Bernard Augustine DeVoto (January 11, 1897 – November 13, 1955) was an American historian, conservationist, essayist, columnist, teacher, editor, and reviewer.

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Braxton Bragg

Braxton Bragg (March 22, 1817 – September 27, 1876) was an American army officer during the Second Seminole War and Mexican–American War and Confederate general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, serving in the Western Theater.

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British protectorate

British protectorates were protectorates—or client states—under protection of the British Empire's armed forces and represented by British diplomats in international arenas, such as the Great Game, in which the Emirate of Afghanistan and the Tibetan Kingdom became protected states for short periods of time.

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Brown Bess

"Brown Bess" is a nickname of uncertain origin for the British Army's muzzle-loading smoothbore flintlock Land Pattern Musket and its derivatives.

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Brownsville, Texas

Brownsville is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Cameron County, located on the western Gulf Coast in South Texas, adjacent to the border with Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico.

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Cahuenga Pass

The Cahuenga Pass (Tongva: Kawé’nga), also known by its Spanish name Paseo de Cahuenga, is a low mountain pass through the eastern end of the Santa Monica Mountains in the Hollywood Hills district of the City of Los Angeles, California.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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California Battalion

The California Battalion (also called the first California Volunteer Militia and U.S. Mounted Rifles) was formed during the Mexican–American War (1846–1848) in present-day California, United States. It was led by U.S. Army Brevet Lieutenant Colonel John C. Frémont and composed of his cartographers, scouts and hunters and the California Volunteer Militia formed after the Bear Flag Revolt. Mexican–American War and California Battalion are 1847 in Alta California, 1848 in California and united States Marine Corps in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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California genocide

The California genocide was a series of systematized killings of thousands of Indigenous people of California by United States government agents and private citizens in the 19th century.

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California gold rush

The California gold rush (1848–1855) was a gold rush that began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. Mexican–American War and California gold rush are 1848 in California, history of United States expansionism and pre-statehood history of California.

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California Historical Society

The California Historical Society (CHS) is the official historical society of California.

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California Republic

The California Republic (República de California), or Bear Flag Republic, was an unrecognized breakaway state from Mexico, that for 25 days in 1846 militarily controlled an area north of San Francisco, in and around what is now Sonoma County in California. Mexican–American War and California Republic are history of the Southwestern United States and pre-statehood history of California.

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Californios

Californios (singular Californio) are Hispanic Californians, especially those descended from Spanish and Mexican settlers of the 17th through 19th centuries before California was annexed by the United States. Mexican–American War and Californios are mexican California.

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Camargo Municipality, Tamaulipas

Camargo is a municipality in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas.

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Canadians

Canadians (Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada.

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Carl Nebel

Carl Nebel (18 March 1805 – 4 June 1855) was a German engineer, architect and draughtsman,Thieme-Becker, entry "Nebel, Carl" best known for his detailed paintings and lithographic prints made from them of the Mexican landscape and people during the battles of the Mexican–American War.

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Caste War of Yucatán

The Caste War of Yucatán or ba'atabil kichkelem Yúum (1847–1901) began with the revolt of native Maya people of the Yucatán Peninsula against Hispanic populations, called Yucatecos. Mexican–American War and Caste War of Yucatán are 1847 in Mexico.

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Casus belli

A casus belli is an act or an event that either provokes or is used to justify a war.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Catholic Church in Mexico

The Mexican Catholic Church, or Catholic Church in Mexico, is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope, his Curia in Rome and the national Mexican Episcopal Conference.

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Caucasian race

The Caucasian race (also Caucasoid, Europid, or Europoid) is an obsolete racial classification of humans based on a now-disproven theory of biological race.

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Celedonio Dómeco de Jarauta

Celedonio Dómeco de Jarauta (3 March 1814 – 19 July 1848) was a Spanish soldier, Catholic priest and later a Mexican guerrilla leader in the Mexican-American War.

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Cenotaph

A cenotaph is an empty tomb or a monument erected in honour of a person or group of people whose remains are elsewhere.

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Ceran St. Vrain

Ceran St.

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Chapultepec

Chapultepec, more commonly called the "Bosque de Chapultepec" (Chapultepec Forest) in Mexico City, is one of the largest city parks in Mexico, measuring in total just over.

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Chapultepec Castle

Chapultepec Castle (Castillo de Chapultepec) is located on top of Chapultepec Hill in Mexico City's Chapultepec park.

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Charles Autobees

Charles Autobees (1812–1882), whose last name was also spelled Urtebise and Ortivis, was a fur trader and pioneer in the American Old West.

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Charles Bent

Charles Bent (November 11, 1799 – January 19, 1847) was an American businessman and politician who served as the first civilian United States governor of the New Mexico Territory, newly invaded and occupied by the United States during the Mexican-American War by the Military Governor, Stephen Watts Kearny, in September 1846.

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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.

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Chihuahua (state)

Chihuahua, officially the Estado Libre y Soberano de Chihuahua (Free and Sovereign State of Chihuahua), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 federal entities of Mexico.

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Chihuahua City

The city of Chihuahua or Chihuahua City (Ciudad de Chihuahua; Lipan: Ją’éłąyá) is the state capital of the Mexican state of Chihuahua.

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Cholera

Cholera is an infection of the small intestine by some strains of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae.

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Civil Disobedience (Thoreau)

Resistance to Civil Government, also called On the Duty of Civil Disobedience or Civil Disobedience for short, is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849.

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Civil law (legal system)

Civil law is a legal system originating in Italy and France that has been adopted in large parts of the world.

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Coahuila y Tejas

Coahuila y Tejas, officially the Estado Libre y Soberano de Coahuila y Tejas, was one of the constituent states of the newly established United Mexican States under its 1824 Constitution.

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Colorado

Colorado (other variants) is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

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Colorado River

The Colorado River (Río Colorado) is one of the principal rivers (along with the Rio Grande) in the Southwestern United States and in northern Mexico.

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Colt Paterson

The Colt Paterson revolver was the first commercial repeating firearm employing a revolving cylinder with multiple chambers aligned with a single, stationary barrel.

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Colt Walker

The Colt Walker, sometimes known as the Walker Colt, is a single-action revolver with a revolving cylinder holding six charges of black powder behind six bullets (typically.44 caliber lead balls).

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Comanche

The Comanche or Nʉmʉnʉʉ (Nʉmʉnʉʉ, "the people") is a Native American tribe from the Southern Plains of the present-day United States.

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Comancheria

The Comancheria or Comanchería (Comanche: Nʉmʉnʉʉ Sookobitʉ, 'Comanche land') was a region of New Mexico, west Texas and nearby areas occupied by the Comanche before the 1860s.

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Community property

Community property (United States) also called community of property (South Africa) is a marital property regime whereby property acquired during a marriage is considered to be owned by both spouses and subject to division between them in the event of divorce.

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Confederate States of America

The Confederate States of America (CSA), commonly referred to as the Confederate States (C.S.), the Confederacy, or the South, was an unrecognized breakaway republic in the Southern United States that existed from February 8, 1861, to May 9, 1865.

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Congressional Record

The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress, published by the United States Government Publishing Office and issued when Congress is in session.

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Constitution of California

The Constitution of California (Constitución de California) is the primary organizing law for the U.S. state of California, describing the duties, powers, structures and functions of the government of California. Mexican–American War and Constitution of California are pre-statehood history of California.

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Cotton production in the United States

The United States exports more cotton than any other country, though it ranks third in total production, behind China and India.

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David G. Burnet

David Gouverneur Burnet (April 14, 1788 – December 5, 1870) was an early politician within the Republic of Texas, serving as the interim president of Texas in 1836, the second vice president of the Republic of Texas (1839–1841), and the secretary of State (1846) for the new state of Texas after it was annexed to the United States.

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David Wilmot

David Wilmot (January 20, 1814 – March 16, 1868) was an American politician and judge.

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De facto

De facto describes practices that exist in reality, regardless of whether they are officially recognized by laws or other formal norms.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

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Diego Archuleta

Brigadier General Diego Archuleta (March 27, 1814 – 1884), was a member of the Mexican Congress.

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East Florida

East Florida (Florida Oriental) was a colony of Great Britain from 1763 to 1783 and a province of the Spanish Empire from 1783 to 1821.

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East Texas

East Texas is a broadly defined cultural, geographic, and ecological region in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Texas that comprises most of 41 counties.

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Edmund Kirby Smith

Edmund Kirby Smith (May 16, 1824March 28, 1893) was a Confederate States Army general, who oversaw the Trans-Mississippi Department (comprising Arkansas, Missouri, Texas, western Louisiana, Arizona Territory and the Indian Territory) from 1863 to 1865.

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El Paso, Texas

El Paso is a city in and the county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States.

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Emily Dickinson

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet.

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English people

The English people are an ethnic group and nation native to England, who speak the English language, a West Germanic language, and share a common ancestry, history, and culture.

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Federal Army

The Mexican Federal Army (Ejército Federal), also known as the Federales (Federals) in popular culture, was the military of Mexico from 1876 to 1914 during the Porfiriato, the long rule of President Porfirio Díaz, and during the presidencies of Francisco I. Madero and Victoriano Huerta.

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First Battle of Mora

The First Battle of Mora was part of the Taos Revolt of the Mexican–American War, between United States Army troops under Captain Israel R. Hendley, versus a militia of Hispanos (acting as Mexican nationals) and Puebloan allies in US-occupied northern New Mexico.

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First Battle of Tabasco

The First Battle of Tabasco was fought during the Mexican–American War, in October 1846, in an attempt to capture cities along the Tabasco coast.

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First Mexican Empire

The Mexican Empire (Imperio Mexicano) was a constitutional monarchy, the first independent government of Mexico and the only former viceroyalty of the Spanish Empire to establish a monarchy after independence.

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First Mexican Republic

The First Mexican Republic, known also as the First Federal Republic (Primera República Federal), existed from 1824 to 1835.

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Flag of California

The Bear Flag is the official flag of the U.S. state of California.

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Fort Brown

Fort Brown (originally Fort Texas) was a military post of the United States Army in Cameron County, Texas, during the latter half of the 19th century and the early part of the 20th century.

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Fort Leavenworth

Fort Leavenworth is a United States Army installation located in Leavenworth County, Kansas, in the city of Leavenworth.

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Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments.

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Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, or February 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.

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Fremont Peak (California)

Fremont Peak or Frémont Peak, historically known as Gabilán Peak, is a summit in the Gabilan Range, one of the mountain ranges paralleling California's central coast.

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French people

The French people (lit) are a nation primarily located in Western Europe that share a common French culture, history, and language, identified with the country of France.

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Gabriel Valencia

Gabriel Valencia (c.1794March 25, 1848) was a Mexican soldier in the early years of the Republic.

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Gadsden Purchase

The Gadsden Purchase (Venta de La Mesilla "La Mesilla sale") is a region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States acquired from Mexico by the Treaty of Mesilla, which took effect on June 8, 1854. Mexican–American War and Gadsden Purchase are history of United States expansionism, history of the Southwestern United States and pre-statehood history of Arizona.

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George B. McClellan

George Brinton McClellan (December 3, 1826 – October 29, 1885) was an American military officer and politician who served as the 24th governor of New Jersey and as Commanding General of the United States Army from November 1861 to March 1862.

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George Bancroft

George Bancroft (October 3, 1800 – January 17, 1891) was an American historian, statesman and Democratic politician who was prominent in promoting secondary education both in his home state of Massachusetts and at the national and international levels.

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George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen

George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (28 January 178414 December 1860), styled Lord Haddo from 1791 to 1801, was a British statesman, diplomat and landowner, successively a Tory, Conservative and Peelite politician and specialist in foreign affairs.

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George M. Dallas

George Mifflin Dallas (July 10, 1792 – December 31, 1864) was an American politician and diplomat who served as mayor of Philadelphia from 1828 to 1829, the 11th vice president of the United States from 1845 to 1849, and U.S. Minister to the United Kingdom from 1856 to 1861.

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George Meade

George Gordon Meade (December 31, 1815 – November 6, 1872) was a United States Army Major General who commanded the Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War from 1863 to 1865.

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George Wilkins Kendall

George Wilkins Kendall (1809–1867) was a journalist, war correspondent, and pioneer Texas sheepman, known as the father of the Texas sheep business.

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Germans

Germans are the natives or inhabitants of Germany, or sometimes more broadly any people who are of German descent or native speakers of the German language.

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Gila River

The Gila River (O'odham Pima: Keli Akimel or simply Akimel, Quechan: Haa Siʼil, Maricopa language: Xiil) is a tributary of the Colorado River flowing through New Mexico and Arizona in the United States.

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Great Basin

The Great Basin (Gran Cuenca) is the largest area of contiguous endorheic watersheds, those with no outlets to the ocean, in North America.

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Greco-Persian Wars

The Greco-Persian Wars (also often called the Persian Wars) were a series of conflicts between the Achaemenid Empire and Greek city-states that started in 499 BC and lasted until 449 BC.

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Guanajuato

Guanajuato, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Guanajuato (Estado Libre y Soberano de Guanajuato), is one of the 32 states that make up the Federal Entities of Mexico.

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Guaymas

Guaymas is a city in Guaymas Municipality, in the southwest part of the state of Sonora, in northwestern Mexico.

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Guillermo Prieto

Guillermo Prieto Pradillo (10 February 1818 – 2 March 1897) was a Mexican novelist, short-story writer, poet, chronicler, journalist, essayist, patriot and Liberal politician.

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Gulf of California

The Gulf of California (Golfo de California), also known as the Sea of Cortés (Mar de Cortés) or Sea of Cortez, or less commonly as the Vermilion Sea (Mar Vermejo), is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean that separates the Baja California peninsula from the Mexican mainland.

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Hand-to-hand combat

Hand-to-hand combat (sometimes abbreviated as HTH or H2H) is a physical confrontation between two or more persons at short range (grappling distance or within the physical reach of a handheld weapon) that does not involve the use of ranged weapons.

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Harper Perennial

Harper Perennial is a paperback imprint of the publishing house HarperCollins Publishers.

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Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher.

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Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, (20 October 1784 – 18 October 1865), known as Lord Palmerston, was a British statesman and politician who was twice prime minister of the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century.

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Henry Stanton Burton

Henry Stanton Burton (1818–1869) was a graduate of West Point, a career American Army officer who served in the Second Seminole War, Mexican–American War and the American Civil War.

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Heroic Military Academy

The Heroic Military College (officially in Heroico Colegio Militar) is the major military educational institution in Mexico.

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Hopi

The Hopi are Native Americans who primarily live in northeastern Arizona.

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Horse artillery

Horse artillery was a type of light, fast-moving, and fast-firing artillery which provided highly mobile fire support, especially to cavalry units.

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Huamantla

Huamantla is a small city in the municipality of the same name in the eastern half of the Mexican state of Tlaxcala.

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Ignacio Ramírez (politician)

Juan Ignacio Paulino Ramírez Calzada (22 June 1818 – 15 June 1879), more commonly known as Ignacio Ramírez, was a 19th century Mexican liberal intellectual and statesman.

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Indian reservation

An American Indian reservation is an area of land held and governed by a U.S. federal government-recognized Native American tribal nation, whose government is autonomous, subject to regulations passed by the United States Congress and administered by the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs, and not to the U.S.

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Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution, sometimes divided into the First Industrial Revolution and Second Industrial Revolution, was a period of global transition of the human economy towards more widespread, efficient and stable manufacturing processes that succeeded the Agricultural Revolution.

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Irish people

Irish people (Muintir na hÉireann or Na hÉireannaigh) are an ethnic group and nation native to the island of Ireland, who share a common ancestry, history and culture.

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Italians

Italians (italiani) are an ethnic group native to the Italian geographical region.

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Izúcar de Matamoros

Izúcar de Matamoros is a city in Izúcar de Matamoros Municipality located in the southwestern part of the Mexican state of Puebla.

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James K. Polk

James Knox Polk (November 2, 1795 – June 15, 1849) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 11th president of the United States from 1845 to 1849. Mexican–American War and James K. Polk are presidency of James K. Polk.

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James Longstreet

James Longstreet (January 8, 1821January 2, 1904) was a Confederate general who served during the American Civil War and was the principal subordinate to General Robert E. Lee, who called him his "Old War Horse".

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James M. McPherson

James Munro McPherson (born October 11, 1936) is an American historian specializing in the American Civil War.

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James Russell Lowell

James Russell Lowell (February 22, 1819 – August 12, 1891) was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat.

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Jane Cazneau

Jane Maria Eliza Cazneau (née McManus, widowed Storm; April 6, 1807 – December 12, 1878) was an Irish-American journalist, lobbyist, and publicist who advocated the annexation of all of Mexico during the Mexican–American War.

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Jane Swisshelm

Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm (December6, 1815July22, 1884) was an American Radical Republican journalist, publisher, abolitionist, and women's rights advocate.

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Jefferson Davis

Jefferson F. Davis (June 3, 1808December 6, 1889) was an American politician who served as the first and only president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865.

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Joaquín Rea

Joaquín Rea (?–1850) was a Mexican general in the Mexican–American War.

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John C. Calhoun

John Caldwell Calhoun (March 18, 1782March 31, 1850) was an American statesman and political theorist who served as the seventh vice president of the United States from 1825 to 1832.

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John C. Frémont

John Charles Frémont (January 21, 1813July 13, 1890) was an American explorer, military officer, and politician.

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John Coffee Hays

John Coffee "Jack" Hays (January 28, 1817 – April 21, 1883) was an American military officer.

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John D. Sloat

John Drake Sloat (July 26, 1781 – November 28, 1867) was a commodore in the United States Navy who, in 1846, claimed California for the United States.

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John David Albert

John David Albert (May 24, 1810April 24, 1899) was an American mountain man.

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John E. Wool

John Ellis Wool (February 20, 1784 – November 10, 1869) was an officer in the United States Army during three consecutive U.S. wars: the War of 1812, the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War.

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John Hill Hewitt

John Hill Hewitt (July 11, 1801, New York City — October 7, 1890, Baltimore) was an American composer, playwright, and poet.

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John Hopkins Clarke

John Hopkins Clarke (April 1, 1789 – November 23, 1870) was a United States senator from Rhode Island.

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John L. O'Sullivan

John Louis O'Sullivan (November 15, 1813 – March 24, 1895) was an American columnist, editor, and diplomat who coined the term "manifest destiny" in 1845 to promote the annexation of Texas and the Oregon Country to the United States.

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John Marsh (pioneer)

John Marsh (June 5, 1799 – September 24, 1856), later known in Spanish as Don Juan Marsh, was a physician, ranchero, and linguist in California when it was still part of the Republic of Mexico.

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John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams (July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was an American statesman, politician, diplomat, lawyer, and diarist who served as the sixth president of the United States, from 1825 to 1829.

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John Riley (soldier)

John Patrick Riley (also known as John Patrick O'Riley) (Irish: Seán Pádraig Ó Raghallaigh) (8 February 1817 – 10 October 1850) was an Irish soldier in the British Army who emigrated to the United States and subsequently enlisted in the United States Army.

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John Slidell

John Slidell (1793July 9, 1871) was an American politician, lawyer, slaveholder, and businessman.

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John Tyler

John Tyler (March 29, 1790 – January 18, 1862) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the tenth president of the United States from 1841 to 1845, after briefly holding office as the tenth vice president in 1841.

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John Y. Mason

John Young Mason (April 18, 1799October 3, 1859) was a United States representative from Virginia, the 16th and 18th United States Secretary of the Navy, the 18th Attorney General of the United States, United States Minister to France and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

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José Castro

José Antonio Castro (1808 – February 1860) was a Californio politician, statesman, and general who served as interim Governor of Alta California and later Governor of Baja California.

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José de Urrea

José Cosme de Urrea y Elías González (full name) or simply José de Urrea (March 19, 1797 – August 1, 1849) was a Mexican general.

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José Joaquín de Herrera

José Joaquín Antonio Florencio de Herrera y Ricardos (February 23, 1792 – February 10, 1854) was a Mexican statesman who served as president of Mexico three times (1844, 1844–1845 and 1848–1851), and as a general in the Mexican Army during the Mexican–American War of 1846–1848.

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José María Flores

General José María Flores (1818–1866) was a captain in the Mexican Army and was a member of la otra banda.

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José María Iglesias

José María Iglesias Inzáurraga (5 January 1823 – 17 December 1891) was a Mexican lawyer, professor, journalist and liberal politician.

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José Mariano Salas

José Mariano Salas Barbosa (11 May 1797 – 24 December 1867) was a Mexican soldier and politician who served twice as interim president of Mexico, once in 1846, during the Mexican American War, and once in 1859 during the War of Reform.

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Josefina Zoraida Vázquez

Josefina Zoraida Vázquez is a noted Mexican historian, considered the Mexican expert on the Mexican–American War.

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Joseph E. Johnston

Joseph Eggleston Johnston (February 3, 1807 – March 21, 1891) was an American career army officer, who served in the United States Army during the Mexican–American War (1846–1848) and the Seminole Wars.

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Joseph Lane

Joseph Lane (December 14, 1801 – April 19, 1881) was an American politician and soldier.

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Joshua Reed Giddings

Joshua Reed Giddings (October 6, 1795 – May 27, 1864) was an American attorney, politician and a prominent opponent of slavery.

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Josiah Gregg

Josiah Gregg (19 July 1806 – 25 February 1850) was an American merchant, explorer, naturalist, and author of Commerce of the Prairies, about the American Southwest and parts of northern Mexico. Mexican–American War and Josiah Gregg are pre-statehood history of New Mexico.

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Juan Almonte

Juan Nepomuceno Almonte Ramírez (May 15, 1803 – March 21, 1869) was a Mexican soldier, commander, minister of war, congressman, diplomat, presidential candidate, and regent.

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Juan Bautista Alvarado

Juan Bautista Valentín Alvarado y Vallejo (February 14, 1809 – July 13, 1882) usually known as Juan Bautista Alvarado, was a Californio politician that served as Governor of Alta California from 1837 to 1842.

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Kansas

Kansas is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Kearny Code

The Kearny Code is a legal code named after General Stephen W. Kearny. Mexican–American War and Kearny Code are pre-statehood history of New Mexico.

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Kit Carson

Christopher Houston Carson (December 24, 1809 – May 23, 1868) was an American frontiersman.

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Knights of the Golden Circle

The Knights of the Golden Circle (KGC) was a secret society founded in 1854 by American George W. L. Bickley, the objective of which was to create a new country, known as the Golden Circle (Círculo Dorado), where slavery would be legal. Mexican–American War and Knights of the Golden Circle are history of United States expansionism.

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La Paz, Baja California Sur

La Paz (Peace) is the capital city and the largest city of the Mexican state of Baja California Sur.

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Lancer

A lancer was a type of cavalryman who fought with a lance.

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Las Vigas de Ramírez

Las Vigas de Ramírez is a city in the Mexican state of Veracruz.

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Law of April 6, 1830

Law of April 6, 1830 was issued because of the Mier y Terán Report to counter concerns that Mexican Texas, part of the border state of Coahuila y Tejas was in danger of being annexed by the United States.

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Law of Spain

The Law of Spain is the legislation in force in the Kingdom of Spain, which is understood to mean Spanish territory, Spanish waters, consulates and embassies, and ships flying the Spanish flag in democratically elected institutions.

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List of battles of the Mexican–American War

The battles of the Mexican–American War include all major engagements and most reported skirmishes, including Thornton's Defeat, the Battle of Palo Alto, and the Battle of Resaca de la Palma, which took place prior to the official start of hostilities.

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List of United States military and volunteer units in the Mexican–American War

This is a list of United States military units that participated in the Mexican–American War.

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List of wars between democracies

This is an incomplete list of wars between entities that have a constitutionally democratic form of government and actually practice it.

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Little Englander

Little Englanders during the late 19th and early 20th centuries were a faction of the Liberal Party who opposed further expansion of and financial support to the British Empire, and advocated complete independence for British colonies.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.

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Louisiana Purchase

The Louisiana Purchase (translation) was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from the French First Republic in 1803. Mexican–American War and Louisiana Purchase are history of United States expansionism and pre-statehood history of New Mexico.

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Lowell, Massachusetts

Lowell is a city in Massachusetts, United States.

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Lucas Alamán

Lucas Ignacio Alamán y Escalada (Guanajuato, New Spain, 18 October 1792 – Mexico City, Mexico, 2 June 1853) was a Mexican scientist, conservative statesman, historian, and writer.

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Luis de la Rosa Oteiza

José Luis Antonio de Santa Rita de la Rosa y Oteiza (23 May 1804 – 2 September 1856) was a Mexican 19th-century politician who served as interim minister in several cabinets, as governor of Puebla, as President of the Chamber of Deputies in 1845., and as congressman in the Constituent Congress of 1856.

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Manuel Antonio Chaves

Manuel Antonio Chaves or Chávez (October 18, 1818? – January, 1889), known as El Leoncito (the little lion), was a soldier in the Mexican Army and then became a rancher who lived in New Mexico.

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Manuel Armijo

Manuel Armijo (– 1853) was a New Mexican soldier and statesman who served three times as governor of New Mexico between 1827 and 1846.

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Manuel de la Peña y Peña

José Manuel de la Peña y Peña (10 March 1789 – 2 January 1850) was a Mexican lawyer and judge, who served two non-consecutive, but closely following terms as the president of Mexico during the Mexican American War.

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Manuel Micheltorena

Joseph Manuel María Joaquin Micheltorena y Llano (8 June 1804 – 7 September 1853) was a brigadier general and adjutant-general of the Mexican Army, Governor of California, commandant-general and inspector of the department of Las Californias, then within Mexico.

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Manuel Pineda Muñoz

Manuel Pineda Muñoz (1804–1891), was a Mexican Army officer that led the Mexican resistance against the forces of the United States in Baja California Sur, during the Mexican–American War.

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María Josefa Zozaya

María Josefa Zozaya de Garza (c. 1822 – September 23, 1846) was a Mexican woman who aided wounded and ill troops of both the American and Mexican armies during the Mexican–American War.

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Mariano Arista

José Mariano Arista (26 July 1802 – 7 August 1855) was a Mexican soldier and politician who also became president of Mexico.

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Mariano Paredes (President of Mexico)

José Mariano Epifanio Paredes y Arrillaga (c. 7 January 1797 – 7 September 1849) was a Mexican conservative general who served as president of Mexico between December 1845 and July 1846.

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Marines' Hymn

The "Marines' Hymn" is the official hymn of the United States Marine Corps, introduced by the first director of the USMC Band, Francesco Maria Scala.

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Mary Lyon

Mary Mason Lyon (February 28, 1797 – March 5, 1849) was an American pioneer in women's education.

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Mass media

Mass media include the diverse arrays of media that reach a large audience via mass communication.

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Matamoros, Tamaulipas

Matamoros, officially known as Heroica Matamoros, is a city in the northeastern Mexican state of Tamaulipas, and the municipal seat of the homonymous municipality.

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Matthew C. Perry

Matthew Calbraith Perry (April 10, 1794 – March 4, 1858) was an United States Navy officer who commanded ships in several wars, including the War of 1812 and the Mexican–American War.

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Mazatlán

Mazatlán is a city in the Mexican state of Sinaloa.

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Mestizo

Mestizo (fem. mestiza, literally 'mixed person') is a person of mixed European and Indigenous non-European ancestry in the former Spanish Empire.

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Mexican Cession

The Mexican Cession (Cesión mexicana) is the region in the modern-day western United States that Mexico previously controlled, then ceded to the United States in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 after the Mexican–American War. Mexican–American War and mexican Cession are 1848 in California, 1848 in Mexico, 1848 in the United States and history of United States expansionism.

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Mexican Revolution

The Mexican Revolution (Revolución Mexicana) was an extended sequence of armed regional conflicts in Mexico from 20 November 1910 to 1 December 1920. Mexican–American War and Mexican Revolution are wars fought in Arizona and wars fought in Texas.

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Mexican Texas

Mexican Texas is the historiographical name used to refer to the era of Texan history between 1821 and 1836, when it was part of Mexico.

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Mexican War of Independence

The Mexican War of Independence (Guerra de Independencia de México, 16 September 1810 – 27 September 1821) was an armed conflict and political process resulting in Mexico's independence from the Spanish Empire.

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Mexicans

Mexicans (Mexicanos) are the citizens and nationals of the United Mexican States.

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Mexico City

Mexico City (Ciudad de México,; abbr.: CDMX; Central Nahuatl:,; Otomi) is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America.

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Mexico City National Cemetery

The Mexico City National Cemetery is a cemetery in Mexico City.

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Mexico–United States relations

Mexico and the United States have a complex history, with war in the 1840s and the subsequent American acquisition of more than 50% of former Mexican territory, including Texas, California, and New Mexico.

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Military surplus

Military surplus are goods, usually matériel, that are sold or otherwise disposed of when held in excess or are no longer needed by the military.

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Missouri Compromise

The Missouri Compromise (also known as the Compromise of 1820) was federal legislation of the United States that balanced desires of northern states to prevent the expansion of slavery in the country with those of southern states to expand it. Mexican–American War and Missouri Compromise are history of United States expansionism.

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Monterey, California

Monterey (Monterrey) is a city in Monterey County on the southern edge of Monterey Bay on the U.S. state of California's Central Coast.

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Monterrey

Monterrey is the capital and largest city of the northeastern state of Nuevo León, Mexico, and the ninth largest city and second largest metro area in Mexico behind Greater Mexico City.

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Mora, New Mexico

Mora or Santa Gertrudis de lo de Mora is a census-designated place in, and the county seat of, Mora County, New Mexico.

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Mormon Battalion

The Mormon Battalion was the only religious unit in United States military history in federal service, recruited solely from one religious body and having a religious title as the unit designation. Mexican–American War and Mormon Battalion are 1847 in Alta California.

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Moses Austin

Moses Austin (October 4, 1761 – June 10, 1821) was an American businessman and pioneer who played a large part in the development of the lead industry in the early United States, especially in southwest Virginia and Missouri.

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Mount Holyoke College

Mount Holyoke College is a private liberal arts women's college in South Hadley, Massachusetts, United States.

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Mountain man

A mountain man is an explorer who lives in the wilderness and makes his living from hunting and trapping.

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Mouse-holing

Mouse-holing is a tactic used in urban warfare in which soldiers create access to adjoining rooms or buildings by blasting or tunneling through a wall.

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Mule Hill

Mule Hill is a historical site in San Pasqual Valley, San Diego, California. Mexican–American War and Mule Hill are 1846 in Alta California.

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Musket

A musket is a muzzle-loaded long gun that appeared as a smoothbore weapon in the early 16th century, at first as a heavier variant of the arquebus, capable of penetrating plate armour.

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Napoleonic Wars

The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of conflicts fought between the First French Empire under Napoleon Bonaparte (1804–1815) and a fluctuating array of European coalitions.

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Nathan Clifford

Nathan Clifford (August 18, 1803 – July 25, 1881) was an American statesman, diplomat and jurist.

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National Intelligencer

The National Intelligencer and Washington Advertiser was a newspaper published in Washington, D.C., from October 30, 1800 until 1870.

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National Republican Congressional Committee

The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) is the Republican Hill committee which works to elect Republicans to the United States House of Representatives.

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Navajo

The Navajo are a Native American people of the Southwestern United States.

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Nevada

Nevada is a landlocked state in the Western region of the United States.

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New Mexico

New Mexico (Nuevo MéxicoIn Peninsular Spanish, a spelling variant, Méjico, is also used alongside México. According to the Diccionario panhispánico de dudas by Royal Spanish Academy and Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, the spelling version with J is correct; however, the spelling with X is recommended, as it is the one that is used in Mexican Spanish.; Yootó Hahoodzo) is a state in the Southwestern region of the United States.

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New Mexico Territory

The Territory of New Mexico was an organized incorporated territory of the United States from September 9, 1850, until January 6, 1912. Mexican–American War and New Mexico Territory are pre-statehood history of Arizona, pre-statehood history of Nevada and pre-statehood history of New Mexico.

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Niños Héroes

The Niños Héroes (Boy Heroes, or Heroic Cadets) were six Mexican military cadets who were killed in the defence of Mexico City during the Battle of Chapultepec, one of the last major battles of the Mexican–American War, on 13 September 1847. Mexican–American War and Niños Héroes are 1847 in Mexico.

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Nicholas Trist

Nicholas Philip Trist (June 2, 1800 – February 11, 1874) was an American lawyer, diplomat, planter, and businessman.

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Nicolás Bravo

Nicolás Bravo Rueda (10 September 1786 – 22 April 1854) was a Mexican soldier and politician who served as interim President of Mexico three times, in 1839, 1842, and 1846.

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Nueces River

The Nueces River (Río Nueces) is a river in the U.S. state of Texas, about long.

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Nuevo León

Nuevo León (English: New León), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Nuevo León (Spanish: Estado Libre y Soberano de Nuevo León) is a state in northeastern Mexico.

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Oklahoma

Oklahoma (Choctaw: Oklahumma) is a state in the South Central region of the United States.

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Old Three Hundred

The "Old Three Hundred" were 297 grantees who purchased 307 parcels of land from Stephen Fuller Austin in Mexican Texas.

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Oregon boundary dispute

The Oregon boundary dispute or the Oregon Question was a 19th-century territorial dispute over the political division of the Pacific Northwest of North America between several nations that had competing territorial and commercial aspirations in the region. Mexican–American War and Oregon boundary dispute are history of United States expansionism and presidency of James K. Polk.

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Oregon Country

Oregon Country was a large region of the Pacific Northwest of North America that was subject to a long dispute between the United Kingdom and the United States in the early 19th century.

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Oregon Territory

The Territory of Oregon was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from August 14, 1848, until February 14, 1859, when the southwestern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Oregon.

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Oregon Treaty

The Oregon Treaty is a treaty between the United Kingdom and the United States that was signed on June 15, 1846, in Washington, D.C. The treaty brought an end to the Oregon boundary dispute by settling competing American and British claims to the Oregon Country; the area had been jointly occupied by both Britain and the U.S.

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Origins of the American Civil War

A consensus of historians who address the origins of the American Civil War agree that the preservation of the institution of slavery was the principal aim of the eleven Southern states (seven states before the onset of the war and four states after the onset) that declared their secession from the United States (the Union) and united to form the Confederate States of America (known as the "Confederacy").

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Pablo Montoya

Pablo Montoya (also known as Jose Pablo Montoya) (July 1, 1792– February 7, 1847) was a New Mexican politician who was active both in the 1837 revolt against the Mexican government, and in the Taos Revolt of 1847 against the United States, during the Mexican–American War.

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Pacific Historical Review

The Pacific Historical Review is the official publication of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association.

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.

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Pacific Squadron

The Pacific Squadron was part of the United States Navy squadron stationed in the Pacific Ocean in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Parallel 36°30′ north

The parallel 36°30′ north is a circle of latitude that is 36 and one-half degrees north of the equator of the Earth.

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Parras

Parras de la Fuente is a city located in the southern part of the Mexican state of Coahuila.

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Pastry War

The Pastry War (Guerra de los pasteles; Guerre des Pâtisseries), also known as the first French intervention in Mexico or the first Franco-Mexican war (1838–1839), began in November 1838 with the naval blockade of some Mexican ports and the capture of the fortress of San Juan de Ulúa in the port of Veracruz by French forces sent by King Louis Philippe I.

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Pío Pico

Don Pío de Jesús Pico IV (May 5, 1801 – September 11, 1894) was a Californio politician, ranchero, and entrepreneur, famous for serving as the last governor of Alta California under Mexican rule from 1845 to 1846.

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Pedro de Ampudia

Pedro Nolasco Martín José María de la Candelaria Francisco Javier Ampudia y Grimarest (January 30, 1805 – August 7, 1868) was born in Havana, Cuba, and served Mexico as a Northern army officer for most of his life.

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Pedro María de Anaya

Pedro Bernardino María de Anaya y Álvarez (20 May 1794 – 21 March 1854) was a Mexican soldier who served twice as interim president of Mexico during the Mexican-American War.

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Penny press

Penny press newspapers were cheap, tabloid-style newspapers mass-produced in the United States from the 1830s onwards.

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Percussion cap

The percussion cap, percussion primer, or caplock, introduced in the early 1820s, is a type of single-use percussion ignition device for muzzle loader firearm locks enabling them to fire reliably in any weather condition.

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Perote, Veracruz

Perote is a city and municipality in the Mexican state of Veracruz.

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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

The Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant are an autobiography, in two volumes, of Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States.

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Plenipotentiary

A plenipotentiary (from the Latin plenus "full" and potens "powerful") is a diplomat who has full powers—authorization to sign a treaty or convention on behalf of a sovereign.

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Polish people

Polish people, or Poles, are a West Slavic ethnic group and nation who share a common history, culture, the Polish language and are identified with the country of Poland in Central Europe.

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Porfirio Díaz

José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori (15 September 1830 – 2 July 1915), known as simply Porfirio Díaz, was a Mexican general, politician, and later dictator who served on three separate occasions as President of Mexico, a total of over 30 years, from 28 November 1876 to 6 December 1876, 17 February 1877 to 1 December 1880, and 1 December 1884 to 25 May 1911.

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Port of San Francisco

The Port of San Francisco is a semi-independent organization that oversees the port facilities at San Francisco, California, United States.

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Presidio

A presidio (jail, fortification) was a fortified base established by the Spanish Empire between the 16th and 18th centuries in areas under their control or influence.

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Pritzker Military Museum & Library

The Pritzker Military Museum & Library (formerly Pritzker Military Library) is a non-profit museum and a research library for the study of military history on Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois.

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Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library.

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Puebla (city)

Puebla de Zaragoza (Cuetlaxcoapan), formally Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza, formerly Puebla de los Ángeles during colonial times, or known simply as Puebla, is the seat of Puebla Municipality.

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Puebloans

The Puebloans, or Pueblo peoples, are Native Americans in the Southwestern United States who share common agricultural, material, and religious practices.

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Puente Nacional, Veracruz

Puente Nacional is a municipality in the Mexican state of Veracruz.

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Querétaro

Querétaro, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Querétaro (Estado Libre y Soberano de Querétaro; Otomi: Hyodi Ndämxei), is one of the 32 federal entities of Mexico.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803April 27, 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.

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Ramón Alcaraz

Ramón Isaac Alcaraz (June 3, 1823 – April 8, 1886) was an officer in the Mexican Army who wrote many books about the Mexican–American War, including 1848's Apuntes para la historia de la guerra entre México y los Estados Unidos (which in 1850 Albert C. Ramsey translated into English as The Other Side, or: Notes for the History of the War Between Mexico and the United States, Written in Mexico).

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Ramón Eduardo Ruiz

Ramón Eduardo Ruiz (September 9, 1921 – July 6, 2010) was an American historian of Mexico and Latin America.

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Río Frío de Juárez

Río Frío de Juárez, originally Río Frío (Cold River), a Mexican populated place, is located in the municipality of Ixtapaluca in the State of Mexico.

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Reconquista (Mexico)

The Reconquista ("reconquest") is a term to describe an irredentist vision by different individuals, groups, and/or nations that the Southwestern United States should be politically or culturally returned to Mexico. Mexican–American War and Reconquista (Mexico) are history of the Southwestern United States and Mexico–United States relations.

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Reform War

The Reform War, or War of Reform (Guerra de Reforma), also known as the Three Years' War (Guerra de los Tres Años), and the Mexican Civil War, was a complex civil conflict in Mexico fought between Mexican liberals and conservatives with regional variations over the promulgation of Constitution of 1857.

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Republic of Texas

The Republic of Texas (República de Tejas), or simply Texas, was a breakaway state in North America that existed from March 2, 1836, to February 19, 1846.

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Republic of Texas–United States relations

Republic of Texas–United States relations refers to the historical foreign relations between the now-defunct Republic of Texas and the United States of America.

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Republic of Yucatán

The Republic of Yucatán (República de Yucatán) was a sovereign state during two periods of the nineteenth century.

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Resaca (channel)

Resaca is the name given to a type of oxbow lake in the southern half of Cameron County, Texas.

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Revolt of the Polkos

The Revolt of the Polkos was a coup d'état in Mexico that was launched on February 27, 1847, during the Mexican-American War. Mexican–American War and Revolt of the Polkos are presidency of James K. Polk.

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Richard Pakenham

Sir Richard Pakenham PC (19 May 1797 – 28 October 1868) was a British diplomat of Anglo-Irish background.

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Rio Grande

The Rio Grande in the United States or the Río Bravo (del Norte) in Mexico, also known as P’osoge in Tewa and Tó Ba’áadi in Navajo, is one of the principal rivers (along with the Colorado River) in the southwestern United States and in northern Mexico.

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Robert E. Lee

Robert Edward Lee (January 19, 1807 – October 12, 1870) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, toward the end of which he was appointed the overall commander of the Confederate States Army.

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Robert F. Stockton

Robert Field Stockton (August 20, 1795 – October 7, 1866) was a United States Navy commodore, notable in the capture of California during the Mexican–American War.

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Robert P. Letcher

Robert Perkins Letcher (February 10, 1788 – January 24, 1861) was a politician and lawyer from the US state of Kentucky.

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Robert Peel

Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet (5 February 1788 – 2 July 1850), was a British Conservative statesman who twice was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1834–1835, 1841–1846), and simultaneously was Chancellor of the Exchequer (1834–1835).

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Robert Toombs

Robert Augustus Toombs (July 2, 1810 – December 15, 1885) was an American politician from Georgia, who was an important figure in the formation of the Confederacy.

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Ron Chernow

Ronald Chernow (born March 3, 1949) is an American writer, journalist, and biographer.

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Sacramento Valley

The Sacramento Valley (Spanish: Valle de Sacramento) is the area of the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California that lies north of the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta and is drained by the Sacramento River.

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Saint Patrick's Battalion

The Saint Patrick's Battalion (Batallón de San Patricio), later reorganized as the Foreign Legion of Patricios, was a Mexican Army unit which fought against the United States in the Mexican–American War.

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Salinas Valley

The Salinas Valley (Spanish: Valle de Salinas) is one of the major valleys and most productive agricultural regions in California.

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Saltillo

Saltillo is the capital and largest city of the northeastern Mexican state of Coahuila and is also the municipal seat of the municipality of the same name.

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Sam Houston

Samuel Houston (March 2, 1793 – July 26, 1863) was an American general and statesman who played a prominent role in the Texas Revolution.

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Samuel Hamilton Walker

Samuel Hamilton Walker (February 24, 1817 – October 9, 1847) was an American army officer.

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San Diego

San Diego is a city on the Pacific Ocean coast in Southern California located immediately adjacent to the Mexico–United States border.

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San Francisco

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.

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San Francisco Bay

San Francisco Bay is a large tidal estuary in the U.S. state of California, and gives its name to the San Francisco Bay Area.

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San Gabriel River (California)

The San Gabriel River is a mostly-urban waterway flowing southward through Los Angeles and Orange Counties, California, in the United States.

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San Luis Obispo, California

paren;;; Chumash: tiłhini) is a city and county seat of San Luis Obispo County, in the U.S. state of California. Located on the Central Coast of California, San Luis Obispo is roughly halfway between the San Francisco Bay Area in the north and Greater Los Angeles in the south. The population was 47,063 at the 2020 census.

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Santa Cruz County, California

Santa Cruz County, officially the County of Santa Cruz, is a county on the Pacific coast of the U.S. state of California.

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Santa Fe de Nuevo México

Santa Fe de Nuevo México (Holy Faith of New Mexico; shortened as Nuevo México or Nuevo Méjico, and translated as New Mexico in English) was a province of the Spanish Empire and New Spain, and later a territory of independent Mexico. Mexican–American War and Santa Fe de Nuevo México are pre-statehood history of New Mexico.

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Santa Fe Trail

The Santa Fe Trail was a 19th-century route through central North America that connected Franklin, Missouri, with Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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Santa Fe, New Mexico

Santa Fe is the capital of the U.S. state of New Mexico, and the county seat of Santa Fe County.

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Sarah A. Bowman

Sarah A. Bowman (c. 1813 – December 22, 1866), also known as Sarah Borginnis or Sarah Bourdette, was an Irish American innkeeper, restaurateur, and madam.

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Scottish people

The Scottish people or Scots (Scots fowk; Albannaich) are an ethnic group and nation native to Scotland.

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Second Battle of Mora

The Second Battle of Mora was a February 1, 1847, military engagement during the Taos Revolt of the Mexican–American War in and around the village of Mora in US-occupied northern New Mexico. Mexican–American War and Second Battle of Mora are 1847 in Mexico.

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Second Battle of Tabasco

The Second Battle of Tabasco, also known as the Battle of Villahermosa, was fought in June 1847 during the Mexican–American War as part of the U.S. blockade of Mexican Gulf ports. Mexican–American War and Second Battle of Tabasco are united States Marine Corps in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Second Federal Republic of Mexico

The Second Federal Republic of Mexico (Segunda República Federal de México) refers to the period of Mexican history involving a second attempt to establish a federal government in Mexico after the fall of the unitary Centralist Republic of Mexico in 1846 at the start of the Mexican-American War.

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Second French intervention in Mexico

The second French intervention in Mexico (segunda intervención francesa en México), also known as the Second Franco-Mexican War (1861–1867), was a military invasion of the Republic of Mexico by the French Empire of Napoleon III, purportedly to force the collection of Mexican debts in conjunction with Great Britain and Spain. Mexican–American War and second French intervention in Mexico are wars involving the United States.

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Second Mexican Empire

The Second Mexican Empire (Segundo Imperio mexicano; Second Empire mexicain), officially the Mexican Empire (Imperio Mexicano), was a constitutional monarchy established in Mexico by Mexican monarchists in conjunction with the Second French Empire.

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Sectionalism

Sectionalism is loyalty to one's own region or section of the country, rather than to the country as a whole.

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Siege of Béxar

The siege of Béxar (or Béjar) was an early campaign of the Texas Revolution in which a volunteer Texian army defeated Mexican forces at San Antonio de Béxar (now San Antonio, Texas).

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Siege of Fort Texas

The siege of Fort Texas marked the beginning of active campaigning by the armies of the United States and Mexico during the Mexican–American War. Mexican–American War and siege of Fort Texas are 1846 in Mexico.

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Siege of Los Angeles

The siege of Los Angeles, was a military response by armed Mexican civilians to the August 1846 occupation of the Pueblo de Los Ángeles by the United States Marines during the Mexican–American War. Mexican–American War and siege of Los Angeles are 1846 in Alta California and united States Marine Corps in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Siege of Puebla (1847)

Following the Battle of Chapultepec, Santa Anna withdrew his forces from Mexico City, leading a portion in an attempt to take Puebla and cut off Scott's supply route from Veracruz. Mexican–American War and Siege of Puebla (1847) are 1847 in Mexico.

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Siege of Pueblo de Taos

The siege of Pueblo de Taos was the final battle during the main phase of the Taos Revolt, an insurrection against the United States during the Mexican–American War. Mexican–American War and siege of Pueblo de Taos are 1847 in Mexico.

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Skirmish of Todos Santos

Skirmish of Todos Santos (March 30, 1848), was the last clash of the Mexican–American War and ended eighteen months of hostilities in Baja California. Mexican–American War and Skirmish of Todos Santos are 1848 in Mexico.

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Slave Power

The Slave Power, or Slavocracy, referred to the perceived political power held by American slaveowners in the federal government of the United States during the Antebellum period.

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Slave states and free states

In the United States before 1865, a slave state was a state in which slavery and the internal or domestic slave trade were legal, while a free state was one in which they were prohibited.

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Slavery in the United States

The legal institution of human chattel slavery, comprising the enslavement primarily of Africans and African Americans, was prevalent in the United States of America from its founding in 1776 until 1865, predominantly in the South.

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Soldaderas

Soldaderas, often called Adelitas, were women in the military who participated in the conflict of the Mexican Revolution, ranging from commanding officers to combatants to camp followers.

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Sonoma, California

Sonoma is a city in Sonoma County, California, United States, located in the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Sonora

Sonora, officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Sonora (Free and Sovereign State of Sonora), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico.

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Sonoran Desert

The Sonoran Desert (Desierto de Sonora) is a hot desert in North America and ecoregion that covers the northwestern Mexican states of Sonora, Baja California, and Baja California Sur, as well as part of the southwestern United States (in Arizona and California).

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Southern Democrats

Southern Democrats are members of the U.S. Democratic Party who reside in the Southern United States.

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Southwestern United States

The Southwestern United States, also known as the American Southwest or simply the Southwest, is a geographic and cultural region of the United States that includes Arizona and New Mexico, along with adjacent portions of California, Colorado, Nevada, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah.

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Spaniards

Spaniards, or Spanish people, are a people native to Spain.

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Spanish attempts to reconquer Mexico

Spanish attempts to reconquer Mexico were efforts by the Spanish government to regain possession of its former colony of New Spain, resulting in episodes of war comprised in clashes between the newly born Mexican nation and Spain.

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Spanish Empire

The Spanish Empire, sometimes referred to as the Hispanic Monarchy or the Catholic Monarchy, was a colonial empire that existed between 1492 and 1976.

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Spanish language

Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.

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Spanish Texas

Spanish Texas was one of the interior provinces of the colonial Viceroyalty of New Spain from 1519 until 1821.

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Spot Resolutions

The spot resolutions were offered in the United States House of Representatives on 22 December 1847 by future President Abraham Lincoln, then a Whig representative from Illinois. Mexican–American War and spot Resolutions are 1847 in the United States.

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Stephen F. Austin

Stephen Fuller Austin (November 3, 1793 – December 27, 1836) was an American-born empresario.

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Stephen W. Kearny

Stephen Watts Kearny (sometimes spelled Kearney) (August 30, 1794October 31, 1848) was one of the foremost antebellum frontier officers of the United States Army.

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Sterling Price

Sterling Price (September 14, 1809 – September 29, 1867) was a United States general and senior officer of the Confederate States Army who fought in both the Western and Trans-Mississippi theater of the American Civil War.

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Stonewall Jackson

Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (January 21, 1824 – May 10, 1863) was a Confederate general and military officer who served during the American Civil War.

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Swiss people

The Swiss people (die Schweizer, les Suisses, gli Svizzeri, ils Svizzers) are the citizens of the multi-ethnic Swiss Confederation (Switzerland) regardless of ethno-cultural background or people of self-identified Swiss ancestry.

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Tabasco

Tabasco, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Tabasco (Estado Libre y Soberano de Tabasco), is one of the 32 Federal Entities of the United Mexican States.

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Taos Pueblo

Taos Pueblo (or Pueblo de Taos) is an ancient pueblo belonging to a Taos-speaking (Tiwa) Native American tribe of Puebloan people.

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Taos Revolt

The Taos Revolt was a popular insurrection in January 1847 by Hispano and Pueblo allies against the United States' occupation of present-day northern New Mexico during the Mexican–American War. Mexican–American War and Taos Revolt are conflicts in 1847 and pre-statehood history of New Mexico.

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Taos, New Mexico

Taos is a town in Taos County in the north-central region of New Mexico in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.

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Tejanos

Tejanos are descendants of Texas Creoles and Mestizos who settled in Texas before its admission as an American state.

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Territorial evolution of the United States

The United States of America was formed after thirteen British colonies in North America declared independence from the British Empire on July 4, 1776. Mexican–American War and Territorial evolution of the United States are history of United States expansionism.

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Texan Santa Fe Expedition

The Texan Santa Fe Expedition was a failed commercial and military expedition in 1841 by the Republic of Texas with the objective of competing with the lucrative trade conducted over the Santa Fe Trail and the ulterior motive of annexing to Texas the eastern one-half of New Mexico, then a province of Mexico. Mexican–American War and Texan Santa Fe Expedition are history of United States expansionism and pre-statehood history of New Mexico.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States.

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Texas annexation

The Republic of Texas was annexed into the United States and admitted to the Union as the 28th state on December 29, 1845. Mexican–American War and Texas annexation are history of United States expansionism and presidency of James K. Polk.

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Texas raids on New Mexico (1843)

Texas raids on New Mexico in 1843 consisted of two expeditions sanctioned by the still independent country of Texas to raid Mexican commerce on the Santa Fe Trail and to assert control for Texas of New Mexico east of the Rio Grande, long inhabited by Hispanic settlers and Pueblo Indians. Mexican–American War and Texas raids on New Mexico (1843) are history of United States expansionism and pre-statehood history of New Mexico.

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Texas Ranger Division

The Texas Ranger Division, also known as the Texas Rangers and also known as, is an investigative law enforcement agency with statewide jurisdiction in the U.S. state of Texas, based in the capital city Austin.

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Texas Revolution

The Texas Revolution (October 2, 1835 – April 21, 1836) was a rebellion of colonists from the United States and Tejanos (Hispanic Texans) against the centralist government of Mexico in the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas. Mexican–American War and Texas Revolution are wars fought in Texas.

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Texian Army

The Texian Army, also known as the Revolutionary Army and Army of the People, was the land warfare branch of the Texian armed forces during the Texas Revolution.

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Texians

Texians were Anglo-American residents of Mexican Texas and, later, the Republic of Texas.

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The American Historical Review

The American Historical Review is a quarterly academic history journal published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Historical Association, for which it is its official publication.

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The Present Crisis

"The Present Crisis" is an 1845 poem by James Russell Lowell.

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Thomas Corwin

Thomas Corwin (July 29, 1794 – December 18, 1865), also known as Tom Corwin, The Wagon Boy, and Black Tom was a politician from the state of Ohio.

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Thomas O. Larkin

Thomas Oliver Larkin (September 16, 1802 – October 27, 1858), known later in life in Spanish as Don Tomás Larquin, was an American diplomat and businessman.

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Thomas Tate Tobin

Thomas Tate Tobin (May 1, 1823 – May 15, 1904) was an American adventurer, tracker, trapper, mountain man, guide, US Army scout, and occasional bounty hunter.

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Thornton Affair

The Thornton Affair, also known as the Thornton Skirmish, Thornton's Defeat, or Rancho Carricitos, was a battle in 1846 between the military forces of the United States and Mexico west upriver from Zachary Taylor's camp along the Rio Grande. Mexican–American War and Thornton Affair are 1846 in Mexico.

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Tohono Oʼodham Nation

The Tohono Oʼodham Nation is the collective government body of the Tohono Oʼodham tribe in the United States.

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Tomás Romero (revolutionary)

Tomás "Tomasito" Romero, (assassinated February 8, 1848) was a Pueblo from Taos Pueblo, where he was referred to as "the alcalde." He was a leader of the Taos Revolt against the American invasion of New Mexico during the Mexican–American War.

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Transcendentalism

Transcendentalism is a philosophical, spiritual, and literary movement that developed in the late 1820s and 1830s in the New England region of the United States.

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Transcontinental railroad

A transcontinental railroad or transcontinental railway is contiguous railroad trackage, that crosses a continental land mass and has terminals at different oceans or continental borders.

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Treaties of Velasco

The Treaties of Velasco were two documents, one private and the other public, signed in Fort Velasco on May 14, 1836 between General Antonio López de Santa Anna and the Republic of Texas in the aftermath of the Battle of San Jacinto on April 21, 1836.

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Treaty of Cahuenga

The Treaty of Cahuenga (Tratado de Cahuenga), also called the Capitulation of Cahuenga (Capitulación de Cahuenga), was an 1847 agreement that ended the Conquest of California, resulting in a ceasefire between Californios and Americans. Mexican–American War and Treaty of Cahuenga are 1847 in Alta California, 1847 in Mexico and mexican California.

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Treaty of Córdoba

The Treaty of Córdoba established Mexican independence from Spain at the conclusion of the Mexican War of Independence.

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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo officially ended the Mexican–American War (1846–1848). Mexican–American War and Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo are 1848 in California, 1848 in Mexico, 1848 in the United States, history of United States expansionism, history of the Southwestern United States, pre-statehood history of Arizona, pre-statehood history of California, pre-statehood history of Nevada, pre-statehood history of New Mexico, pre-statehood history of Utah and presidency of James K. Polk.

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U.S. provisional government of New Mexico

Under the provisions of the Kearny Code as promulgated in 1846, the first legislature of New Mexico commenced its session on December 6, 1847. Mexican–American War and U.S. provisional government of New Mexico are pre-statehood history of New Mexico.

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Ulysses S. Grant

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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United States Capitol

The United States Capitol, often called the Capitol or the Capitol Building, is the seat of the United States Congress, the legislative branch of the federal government.

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United States Cavalry

The United States Cavalry, or U.S. Cavalry, was the designation of the mounted force of the United States Army.

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United States dollar

The United States dollar (symbol: $; currency code: USD; also abbreviated US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official currency of the United States and several other countries.

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United States House of Representatives

The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber.

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United States Marine Corps

The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines, is the maritime land force service branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for conducting expeditionary and amphibious operations through combined arms, implementing its own infantry, artillery, aerial, and special operations forces.

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United States Military Academy

The United States Military Academy (USMA), also referred to metonymically as West Point or simply as Army, is a United States service academy in West Point, New York.

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University of Oklahoma Press

The University of Oklahoma Press (OU Press) is the publishing arm of the University of Oklahoma.

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University Press of Kentucky

The University Press of Kentucky (UPK) is the scholarly publisher for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and was organized in 1969 as successor to the University of Kentucky Press.

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Upper Klamath Lake

Upper Klamath Lake (sometimes called Klamath Lake) (Klamath: ?ews, "lake") is a large, shallow freshwater lake east of the Cascade Range in south-central Oregon in the United States.

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Urban warfare

Urban warfare is warfare in urban areas such as towns and cities.

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USS Congress (1841)

USS Congress—the fourth United States Navy ship to carry that name—was a sailing frigate, like her predecessor,.

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USS Cyane (1837)

The second USS Cyane was a sloop-of-war in the United States Navy during the Mexican–American War.

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USS Independence (1814)

USS Independence was a wooden-hulled, three-masted ship, originally a ship of the line and the first to be commissioned by the United States Navy.

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Utah

Utah is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

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Ute people

Ute are the indigenous, or Native American people, of the Ute tribe and culture among the Indigenous peoples of the Great Basin.

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Valentín Gómez Farías

Valentín Gómez Farías (14 February 1781 – 5 July 1858) was a Mexican physician and liberal politician who became president of Mexico twice, first from 1833 to 1834, during the period of the First Mexican Republic, and again from 1846 to 1847, during the Mexican–American War.

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Vicente Guerrero

Vicente Ramón Guerrero Saldaña (baptized 10 August 1782 – 14 February 1831) was a Mexican military officer and statesman who became the nation's second president.

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Waddy Thompson Jr.

Waddy Thompson Jr. (January 8, 1798 – November 23, 1868) was a U.S. Representative from South Carolina and U.S. Minister to Mexico, 1842–44.

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Walt Whitman

Walter Whitman Jr. (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist.

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Water resources law

Water resources law (in some jurisdictions, shortened to "water law") is the field of law dealing with the ownership, control, and use of water as a resource.

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Whig Party (United States)

The Whig Party was a political party that existed in the United States during the mid-19th century.

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William Austin Dickinson

William Austin Dickinson (April 16, 1829 – August 16, 1895) was an American lawyer who lived and worked in Amherst, Massachusetts.

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William B. Ide

William Brown Ide (March 28, 1796 – December 19 or 20, 1852) was an American pioneer who headed the short-lived California Republic in 1846.

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William Gilpin (governor)

William Gilpin (October 4, 1813 – January 20, 1894) was a 19th-century American explorer, politician, land speculator, and futurist writer about the American West.

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William L. Marcy

William Learned Marcy (December 12, 1786July 4, 1857) was an American lawyer, politician, and judge who served as U.S. Senator, Governor of New York, U.S. Secretary of War and U.S. Secretary of State.

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William Tecumseh Sherman

William Tecumseh Sherman (February 8, 1820February 14, 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author.

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Wilmot Proviso

The Wilmot Proviso was an unsuccessful 1846 proposal in the United States Congress to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican–American War. Mexican–American War and Wilmot Proviso are 1846 in the United States and history of United States expansionism.

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Winfield Scott

Winfield Scott (June 13, 1786May 29, 1866) was an American military commander and political candidate.

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Wyoming

Wyoming is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

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Xalapa

Xalapa or Jalapa, officially Xalapa-Enríquez, is the capital city of the Mexican state of Veracruz and the name of the surrounding municipality.

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Xenophon

Xenophon of Athens (Ξενοφῶν||; probably 355 or 354 BC) was a Greek military leader, philosopher, and historian, born in Athens.

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Yellow fever

Yellow fever is a viral disease of typically short duration.

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Zacatecas

Zacatecas, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Zacatecas (Estado Libre y Soberano de Zacatecas), is one of the 31 states of Mexico.

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Zachary Taylor

Zachary Taylor (November 24, 1784 – July 9, 1850) was an American military leader who served as the 12th president of the United States from 1849 until his death in 1850.

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Zacualtipán

Zacualtipán (formally: Zacualtipán de Ángeles, for Felipe Ángeles, born there in 1868) is a town and one of the 84 municipalities of Hidalgo, in central-eastern Mexico.

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Zócalo

Zócalo is the common name of the main square in central Mexico City.

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Zuni people

The Zuni (A:shiwi; formerly spelled Zuñi) are Native American Pueblo peoples native to the Zuni River valley.

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155th Infantry Regiment (United States)

The "Mississippi Rifles" or the 155th Infantry Regiment, is Mississippi's oldest National Guard unit.

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1824 Constitution of Mexico

The Federal Constitution of the United Mexican States of 1824 (Constitución Federal de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos de 1824) was the first constitution of Mexico, enacted on October 4 of 1824, inaugurating the First Mexican Republic.

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1844 United States presidential election

The 1844 United States presidential election was the 15th quadrennial presidential election, held from Friday, November 1 to Wednesday, December 4, 1844. Mexican–American War and 1844 United States presidential election are presidency of James K. Polk.

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1848 United States presidential election

The 1848 United States presidential election was the 16th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 7, 1848.

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See also

1846 in Alta California

• Battle of Chino
• Battle of Dominguez Rancho
• Battle of Monterey
• Battle of Natividad
• Battle of Olómpali
• Battle of San Pasqual
• Conquest of California
• Donner Party
• Juan Flaco
• Mexican–American War
• Mule Hill
• Murphy's Corral
• Pauma massacre
• Sacramento River massacre
• Siege of Los Angeles
• Sutter Buttes Massacre
• Temecula massacre
• Walla Walla expeditions

1846 in Mexico

• 1846 in Mexico
• Battle of Palo Alto
• Battle of Resaca de la Palma
• Capture of Santa Fe
• Mexican–American War
• Pacific Coast campaign (Mexican–American War)
• Siege of Fort Texas
• Thornton Affair
• United States declaration of war on Mexico

1846 in the United States

• 1846 State of the Union Address
• 1846 in the United States
• Bear Springs Treaty
• Donner Party
• Mexican–American War
• United States declaration of war on Mexico
• Walker tariff
• Wilmot Proviso

1847 in Alta California

• Battle of Río San Gabriel
• Battle of Santa Clara (1847)
• California Battalion
• Charles Brown's saw mill
• Coloma Road, Rescue
• Conquest of California
• Fort Moore (1846-1853)
• Kern and Sutter massacres
• Konkow Maidu slaver massacre
• Mexican–American War
• Mormon Battalion
• Rancheria Tulea massacre
• Treaty of Cahuenga

1847 in Mexico

• 1847 in Mexico
• Action of Atlixco
• Affair at Galaxara Pass
• Battle for Mexico City
• Battle of Buena Vista
• Battle of Cerro Gordo
• Battle of Chapultepec
• Battle of Churubusco
• Battle of Contreras
• Battle of Huamantla
• Battle of La Mesa
• Battle of Molino del Rey
• Battle of San José del Cabo
• Caste War of Yucatán
• Mexican–American War
• Niños Héroes
• Pacific Coast campaign (Mexican–American War)
• Santiago Imán
• Second Battle of Mora
• Siege of La Paz
• Siege of Puebla (1847)
• Siege of Pueblo de Taos
• Siege of Veracruz
• Skirmish at Matamoros
• Treaty of Cahuenga

1847 in the United States

• 1847 in the United States
• Cayuse War
• Mexican–American War
• Spot Resolutions

1848 in California

• California Battalion
• California gold rush
• James W. Marshall
• Lassen Emigrant Trail
• Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park
• Mexican Cession
• Mexican–American War
• Reading's Bar
• SS California (1848)
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

1848 in Mexico

• 1848 in Mexico
• Action of Sequalteplan
• Battle of Santa Cruz de Rosales
• Mexican Cession
• Mexican–American War
• Pacific Coast campaign (Mexican–American War)
• Peralta massacre
• Skirmish of Todos Santos
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
• Villa de Guadalupe, Mexico City

1848 in the United States

• 1848 Democratic National Committee
• 1848 in the United States
• Cayuse War
• Iranistan
• Mexican Cession
• Mexican–American War
• Miracle of the gulls
• Seneca Falls Convention
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

19th-century military history

• African military systems (1800–1900)
• Industrial warfare
• Mexican–American War
• Military of the Empire of Brazil
• Military of the Empire of Japan
• Muhammad Ali's rise to power
• Pre-dreadnought battleship
• Social background of officers and other ranks in the British Army, 1750–1815
• VIII Army Corps (German Confederation)

Conflicts in 1846

• Battle of Aliwal
• Battle of Baddowal
• Battle of Gdów
• Battle of Laguna Limpia
• Battle of Sobraon
• Battle of the Col des Beni Aïcha (1846)
• Dutch intervention in northern Bali (1846)
• Emboscada (historical event)
• First Anglo-Sikh war
• Flagstaff War
• Franco-Tahitian War
• Galician Peasant Uprising of 1846
• Greater Poland uprising (1846)
• Hutt Valley campaign
• Kot massacre
• Kraków uprising
• Mexican–American War
• Patuleia
• Revolt of the Faitiões
• Revolution of Maria da Fonte
• Second Carlist War
• Solís Uprising
• Whanganui campaign

Conflicts in 1847

• Albanian revolt of 1847
• Battle of Agueddin
• Battle of Alau
• Battle of Oued Aslaf
• Battle of the Sacramento River
• Bombardment of Tourane (1847)
• Cayuse War
• Expedition to Canton
• Franco-Tahitian War
• Holy War of the Seven Khojas
• Insurrection of 1847 in the Two Sicilies
• Mexican–American War
• Second Carlist War
• Siege of Veracruz
• Sonderbund War
• Taos Revolt
• Whanganui campaign
• Whitman massacre

Conflicts in 1848

• 1848–1849 massacres in Transylvania
• Cayuse War
• Dutch intervention in northern Bali (1848)
• First Italian War of Independence
• First Schleswig War
• French demonstration of 15 May 1848
• German revolutions of 1848–1849
• March Revolution (Denmark)
• March Unrest
• Matale rebellion
• Mexican–American War
• Revolution of 1848 in Luxembourg
• Revolutions of 1848
• Second Anglo-Sikh war
• Second Carlist War
• Siege of Messina (1848)
• Storming of Freiburg
• Whanganui campaign

History of the Southwestern United States

• 1993 Four Corners hantavirus outbreak
• Ancestral Puebloans
• Banco Convention of 1905
• California Republic
• Colorado River Compact
• Downwinders
• Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy
• Gadsden Purchase
• Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition
• History of Arizona
• History of California
• History of Colorado
• History of Mexican Americans
• History of Nevada
• History of New Mexico
• History of Utah
• La Paz incident
• League of the Southwest
• Mexican–American War
• Old Spanish Trail (trade route)
• Reconquista (Mexico)
• Rose–Baley Party
• Southwestern archaeology
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Invasions by the United States

• 2003 invasion of Iraq
• Allied invasion of Italy
• Allied invasion of Sicily
• Banana Wars
• Battle of Guantánamo Bay
• Battle of Iwo Jima
• Battle of Marseille
• Battle of Okinawa
• Battle of Toulon (1944)
• Battle of Tulagi and Gavutu–Tanambogo
• Bay of Pigs Invasion
• Cambodian campaign
• Candelaria border incursion of 1919
• Cherokee removal
• Dominican Civil War
• Géo Gras Group
• History of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
• Invasion of Elba
• Invasion of Lingayen Gulf
• Invasion of Palawan
• Landing at Aitape
• March to Quebec
• Mexican–American War
• Normandy landings
• Okinawa ground order of battle
• Operation Avalanche
• Operation Dragoon
• Operation Overlord
• Operation Torch
• Operation Uphold Democracy
• Philippine–American War
• Raid at Renacer Prison
• Raid on Yontan Airfield
• Scarlett Martínez International Airport
• Siegfried Line campaign
• Timeline of US intervention in the Syrian civil war
• US intervention in the Syrian civil war
• United States invasion of Afghanistan
• United States invasion of Grenada
• United States invasion of Panama
• United States occupation of Haiti
• War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)

Pre-statehood history of Nevada

• Bartleson–Bidwell Party
• Battle of Williams Station
• Comstock Lode
• Daly Gang
• Empire and the Carson River mills
• First Battle of Pyramid Lake
• George Chorpenning
• Halloway massacre
• Joseph R. Walker
• Mexican–American War
• Mormon Station State Historic Park
• Nataqua Territory
• Nevada Territory
• Nevada in the American Civil War
• New Mexico Territory
• Old Las Vegas Mormon Fort State Historic Park
• Peter Lassen
• Province of Las Californias
• Provincias Internas
• Second Battle of Pyramid Lake
• Si-Te-Cah
• Steamboats of the Colorado River
• The Californias
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
• Treaty of Ruby Valley (1863)
• Utah Territory

Pre-statehood history of New Mexico

• Alonso de Posada
• Bear Springs Treaty
• Chamuscado and Rodríguez Expedition
• Colfax County War
• Colonial New Mexico
• Confederate Arizona
• Department of New Mexico
• District of New Mexico
• Early history of the Arkansas Valley in Colorado
• Fajada Gap
• Humana and Leyva expedition
• Jornada del Muerto
• Josiah Gregg
• Juan Bautista de Anza
• Juan de Oñate
• Juan de Ulibarrí
• Kearny Code
• Louisiana (New France)
• Louisiana Purchase
• Louisiana Territory
• Mexican–American War
• Missouri Territory
• Native American history of New Mexico
• New Mexico Territory
• New Mexico in the American Civil War
• New Spain
• Nicolás de Aguilar
• Northern Rio Grande National Heritage Area
• Nueva Vizcaya, New Spain
• Paraje de San Diego
• Paraje del Perrillo
• Point of Rocks (Sierra County, New Mexico)
• Point of Rocks Tank
• Pueblo Bonito
• Río Arriba Rebellion
• Santa Ana County, New Mexico Territory
• Santa Fe Ring
• Santa Fe de Nuevo México
• Supply of Franciscan missions in New Mexico
• Taos Revolt
• Territorial evolution of New Mexico
• Texan Santa Fe Expedition
• Texas raids on New Mexico (1843)
• Tomás Manso
• Trail of the Ancients Scenic Byway (New Mexico)
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
• Tucson Cutoff
• U.S. provisional government of New Mexico

Pre-statehood history of Utah

• Bartleson–Bidwell Party
• Battle Creek massacre
• Browns Park
• Camp Spring (Washington County, Utah)
• Cove Fort
• Crossing of the Fathers
• Domínguez–Escalante expedition
• Fort Buenaventura
• History of slavery in Utah
• Howard Stansbury
• Judicial System of the State of Deseret
• Mexican–American War
• Miles Goodyear Cabin
• Millsite Rock Art
• Miracle of the gulls
• Mormon handcart pioneers
• Mormon migration to Utah
• Moyle House and Indian Tower
• Nebraska Territory
• Padres Butte
• Pilling Figurines
• Pioneer Village (Utah)
• Province of Las Californias
• Provincias Internas
• San Juan Expedition
• State of Deseret
• Territorial evolution of Utah
• The Californias
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
• Utah Territorial Militia
• Utah Territory
• Utah in the American Civil War
• Willie and Martin handcart companies

Presidency of James K. Polk

• 1844 United States presidential election
• 1846 State of the Union Address
• Battle of Monterrey
• History of U.S. foreign policy, 1829–1861
• Inauguration of James K. Polk
• Independent Treasury
• James K. Polk
• List of federal judges appointed by James K. Polk
• Mexican–American War
• Oregon boundary dispute
• Presidency of James K. Polk
• Revolt of the Polkos
• Rivers and Harbors Bill
• Texas annexation
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
• Walker tariff

United States involvement in regime change

• 1953 Iranian coup d'état
• 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état
• 1964 Brazilian coup d'état
• 1973 Chilean coup d'état
• 2000 Yugoslavian general election
• 2003 invasion of Iraq
• 2004 Haitian coup d'état
• Alleged CIA involvement in the Whitlam dismissal
• Bay of Pigs Invasion
• Brazil–United States relations during the João Goulart government
• Consolidation of the Cuban Revolution
• Cuban Junta
• Dominican Civil War
• Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty
• Iraq War
• List of authoritarian governments supported by the United States
• Mexican–American War
• Naval Government of Guam
• Operation Condor
• Operation Mongoose
• Overthrow (book)
• Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom
• Project FUBELT
• Provisional Government of Cuba
• Separation of Panama from Colombia
• Spanish–American War
• United States Military Government in Cuba
• United States Military Government of Porto Rico
• United States Military Government of the Philippine Islands
• United States invasion of Grenada
• United States invasion of Panama
• United States involvement in regime change
• United States involvement in regime change in Latin America
• United States involvement in the Mexican Revolution
• United States occupation of Haiti
• United States occupation of Nicaragua
• United States occupation of Veracruz
• United States occupation of the Dominican Republic (1916–1924)
• War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)

Wars fought in Arizona

• Apache Wars
• Arizona during World War II
• Black Hawk War (1865–1872)
• Hualapai War
• Mexican Border War
• Mexican Revolution
• Mexican–American War
• Mohave War
• Navajo Wars
• Pima Revolt (1751)
• Sheep wars
• Ute Wars
• Victorio's War
• Yaqui Uprising
• Yaqui Wars
• Yavapai Wars
• Yuma War

Wars fought in California

• California Indian Wars
• California in the American Civil War
• Mexican–American War

Wars fought in Texas

• Apache Wars
• Comanche Wars
• Dawson massacre
• Felix A. Sommerfeld
• Fredonian Rebellion
• List of Alamo defenders
• Mexican Revolution
• Mexican–American War
• Runaway Scrape
• San Elizario Salt War
• Texas Revolution
• Texas in the American Civil War
• War of the Quadruple Alliance

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican–American_War

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