They looted the bodies.
The Mexican-American war.
It can be called the War for Texas Independence or the Texas Revolutionary War, but it is not to be called the Mexican American War or the Mexican War which happened a decade after the Texans won their Independence at San Jacinto.
It began in Texas.
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As a result of the Mexican American War the Northern, Southern and Western Texas borders were all redrawn.
The Mexican-American War was about which country owns Texas.
Yes, it resulted in the Mexican Cession and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
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Santa Anna was captured and forced to accept the secession of Texas from Mexico. This of course, was not accepted by the Mexican congress and ultimately led to the Mexican-American War (1846 - 1848).