The U.S. Decision to Invade Central Mexico, 1847-1848 By the spring of 1847, with the Mexican-American War seeming to stagnate after a year of bitter fighting, the U.S. military had invaded and ...

In 1846, following its annexation of Texas, the United States went to war with Mexico over disputed territory in the Southwest and to enforce its declared southern boundary with Mexico: ... Image: ...

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After Mexican troops attacked U.S. soldiers in Texas on April 25, 1846, the U.S. formally declared war. The 1847 battle over Mexico City is recalled on the U.S. side in the opening line of the ...

The doctrine served as a springboard for US imperial expansion over Mexico’s northern territories during the Mexican-American war (1846-1848), when the US carried out a massive landgrab, taking ...