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The Thornton Affair, where American blood was shed when American and Mexican troops attacked each other. The problem is, they fought on a no man's land (the Nueces Strip).

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Polk provoked Mexico by being on there land because of the reason that Rio grande was the unofficial bored for the united states the official bored was nueces Rio was the border

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he called for an army

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