On the insurgent (i.e. Mexican) side:
On the Spanish side:
A special case is Agustin de Iturbide, who entered the war as supreme commander of the Spanish forces in 1821. When Vicente Guerrero offered him the throne, he switched sides, effectively consummating the independence of Mexico from Spain. Iturbide became emperor of the First Mexican Empire (1821-1823) until Guerrero and Victoria forced him to abdicate and transformed Mexico into a federal republic.
Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, Braxton Bragg, Zachary Taylor, Jefferson Davis, Winfield Scott, Stephen Kearny, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, and thousands of others including the 1,563 US Soldiers who are buried in the Mexico City National Cemetery.
On the insurgent (i.e. Mexican) side:
On the insurgent (i.e. Mexican) side:
On the Spanish side:
A special case is Agustin de Iturbide, who entered the war as supreme commander of the Spanish forces in 1821. When Vicente Guerrero offered him the throne, he switched sides, effectively consummating the independence of Mexico from Spain. Iturbide became emperor of the First Mexican Empire (1821-1823) until Guerrero and Victoria forced him to abdicate and transformed Mexico into a federal republic.
Mexico and the United States fought the war after the admittance of Texas as a US state in 1846. The war (1846-1848) led to US control of California and the west.
Mexico and the United States.
The United States
The Mexican Army under Santa Anna.
The Americans.
The US Civil War was fought from 1861 to 1865. The Mexican War was fought from 1846-1848...the FIRST PHOTOGRAPHS ever taken during a war, were taken during the Mexican War; some are images of mounted US Dragoons in New Mexico (US Dragoons were "Mounted Infantrymen").
Because of how the question is worded, the War of 1812 is the only war that would qualify. The Mexican War was fought almost entirely on Mexican soil, much of which became US territory after the war. The Texan Revolution was fought ten years before Texas became a US state. Both the American Revolution and the French and Indian War were fought before the US became a country. Other wars were fought on land claimed by the US, mostly against Native American forces, but these were not major.
Was called the Mexican American War. It happened between the Texas War of Independence and the US Civil War.
The Mexican War was fought from 1846 to 1848 during Polk's presidency.
No, the Texas and Mexican War is correctly known as the Texas Revolution or the War for Texas Indepence and the Mexican-American war began in 1846 ten years after Texas won its Indepence at the Battle of San Jacinto in 1836.
JFK fought in the Mexican American war
It is called the Mexican American war for a reason. The US fought Mexico.
Santa Anna.
No, that was the Mexican American War.
The US fought Germany and Japan in WWII. The US fought North Korea and Red China in the Korean War. The US fought Mexico in the Mexican War of 1846. The US fought Great Britain in the War of 1812. The US fought Spain in the Spanish-American War of 1898. The US fought Germany in WWI. The US fought North Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Is America at war with the nation of Iraq?
James Knox Polk.
The Mexican, or its other name, the Mexican-US War, was in 1846. There is no direct connection to the US Civil War, other then that many of the generals of the Civil War, fought together and came to know each other.
American Revolution, War of 1812, and Mexican-American War.
During the Mexican-American War (1846-1848)
Mexico and the United States fought the war after the admittance of Texas as a US state in 1846. The war (1846-1848) led to US control of California and the west.
The US Civil War was fought from 1861 to 1865. The Mexican War was fought from 1846-1848...the FIRST PHOTOGRAPHS ever taken during a war, were taken during the Mexican War; some are images of mounted US Dragoons in New Mexico (US Dragoons were "Mounted Infantrymen").
That war was foughtbetween April 25, 1846 and February 2, 1848.