In the Nueces Strip where a US Cavalry patrol stumbledinto a Mexican Army encampment. Shots were fired and men died. It is known as the Thornton Affair and it became the casus belli for the Congress to declare war.
No, the Mexican American War began in 1846.
In 1846.
This war started in 1846.
In 1810.
No, in 1846.
Yes.
Right. It was 'borrowed' by Americans after the Mexican-American War.
In the contested Neuces Strip.
It is the 200th anniversary (hence, bicentennial) of the start of the Mexican War of Independence (1810-1821).
It was a skirmish on a disputed no man's land where Americans died. This was used as a pretext to start the war.
President Polk.
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