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Before the war was declared the President had already issued orders to General Zachary Taylor to march to the Rio Grande and General Stephen W. Kearny to march to Santa Fe and a Naval Force to proceed to California.

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Yes. The Mexican War ended about thirteen years before the Civil War began.

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The War of Texan Independence.

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