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Where did the Mexican war start?

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∙ 14y 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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