Conflict - United States - James K. Polk - Texas
The conflict also known as the Invasion of Mexico was an armed war between the United States and Centralist Republic of Mexico that started in April 1846 to February 1848. The conflict came on the wake of the United States annexation of Texas which Mexico regarded it as its own territory even after the Texas Revolution of 1836 (Nardo, 1999).
The conflict was fought on foreign soil between the expansions minded United States under the administration of President James K. Polk againist the politically divided and military unwary Mexico. President James Polk believed that the United States had the ‘idea of manifest of destiny.' It was a belief that United States had a mission to expand all through North American continent up to the Pacific Ocean. He believed that the idea of the expansion was obvious and inevitable, and all was to be done in order to expand the territory and spread democracy, culture and freedom. His firm belief in the manifest caused the conflict after U.S claimed the Nueces River that Mexico claimed as well as the Rio Grande that U.S claimed. The result of the conflict was the acquisition of the over 500000 square miles of the Mexican territory that stretched all the way to the Pacific Ocean by the United States (Crawford, 1999).
The relationship between Mexico and the United States soured in March 1845 after the U.S annexation of Texas. Texas had got its independence from Mexico in 1836, but the United States had failed to include it into the union since it was a new slave state. Mexico had warned on any attempt on annexation and promised war if it happened. However, after the general election of 1844 where Polk won, he had interests in incorporating all the Southwest states into the union. President Polk offered to purchase the states of New Mexico and California for $ 30 million, but president Jose Joaquin Herre denied his offer. He started to instigate a fight by preparing and presenting a war message to the Congress. He also deployed troops under General Zachary Taylor in the area between Nueces and Rio Grande (Crawford, 1999).
[...] He offered himself and his military experience to fight the American invasion of Mexico. The president at the time, President Valentin Gomez Farias, was so desperate he agreed to Santa Anna's return (Crawford, 1999). He had made a deal with both sides of the war. He had promised the U.S that if he were allowed to go back to Mexico he would help sell the states to the American. However, he went back to Mexico he broke both agreement and declared himself as Mexican president and unsuccessfully led the war against America (Nardo, 1999). [...]
[...] Crawford, M. J. (1999). Encyclopedia of the Mexican-American war : Abc- clio. Nardo, D. (1999). [...]
[...] His firm belief in the manifest caused the conflict after U.S claimed the Nueces River that Mexico claimed as well as the Rio Grande that U.S claimed. The result of the conflict was the acquisition of the over 500000 square miles of the Mexican territory that stretched all the way to the Pacific Ocean by the United States (Crawford, 1999). The relationship between Mexico and the United States soured in March 1845 after the U.S annexation of Texas. Texas had got its independence from Mexico in 1836, but the United States had failed to include it into the union since it was a new slave state. [...]
[...] Santa Anna resigned, and a new stable government was formed. The treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo of February ended the war. The outcome was the US- Mexican border was at Rio Grande, not Nueces River. Mexico became acquinted with the annexation of Texas by america and agreed to sell California all the land that was north of Rio Grande to the United States at a fee of $ 15 million (Crawford, 1999). References (2001). The Mexican-American war, 1846-1848. London, : Osprey Publishing. [...]
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