Where did the Mexican war start?

Anonymous

∙ 15y ago

Updated: 8/17/2019

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.

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Yes.

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In the contested Neuces Strip.

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