Download e-book for iPad: The Mexican War (Greenwood Guides to Historic Events by David S. Heidler,Jeanne T. Heidler

Victory over Mexico additional immense western territories to the US, however it additionally quickened the family slavery debate and crippled Mexico for many years, making the Mexican conflict one in every of our so much ambiguous conflicts. basic records, biographical sketches and narrative chapters rounded out by means of twenty photos and maps and a strong bibliography and index make this paintings by means of of America's optimal Antebellum historians vital to appreciate one in every of our such a lot contentious episodes.

The usa went to warfare with Mexico within the spring of 1846 and through the autumn of 1847 American infantrymen have been strolling within the streets of Mexico urban. the subsequent February, Mexico was once pressured to signal the Treaty fo Guadalupe Hidalgo that ceded what turned the U.S. Southwest and Pacific Coast. instead of an remoted episode, the conflict used to be the end result of a sequence of occasions that started earlier than Mexican independence and incorporated treaty preparations with Spain, the insurrection of Mexico's northern province of Texas, and the starting to be discord over American reactions to Texan independence. The legacy of the conflict was once dire for either nations. The effective usa began a sour argument over the destiny of slavery within the territories got from Mexico that at last culminated in southern secession and Civil battle. Defeated Mexico coped for many years with a ruined economic climate and a damaged political approach whereas nursing a grudge opposed to the Colossus of the North.

This publication examines those occasions from either the yankee and Mexican views. themes lined comprise succinct histories of the yank and Mexican Republics from their colonial founding to their independence from ecu nations; the issues over Texas, together with Anglo immigration, the Texas Revolution, and the controversies surrounding U.S. annexation of Texas; the crises instigated by way of American annexation of Texas attributable to the crossed reasons of yank expansionist goals and household matters over slavery; the northern campaigns of the struggle in California and New Mexico; Winfield Scott's amphibious touchdown and siege at Vera Cruz and his epic march to Mexico urban and the cave in of the Mexican govt; and at last the crafting of the peace treaty and the sour legacies of the struggle for either the U.S. and Mexico. Biographical sketches of Valentin Gomez Farias, Jose Joaquin de Herrere, Sam Houston, Stephen Watts Kearny, President James Polk and different awesome figures of the development supply firsthand glimpses into the motivations of the main avid gamers. 9 maps, 11 photographs, an in depth chronology, and a dozen important annotated basic files upload huge intensity to the publication. an intensive annotated biography and powerful index whole this beneficial re-creation on certainly one of younger America's so much attempting and contentious periods.