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Technically it didn't. Many of our troops defected. It was politically defamed almost unilaterally. We also lost many of the most important battles.

The reason we won was mostly due to the fact that the majority of the land that was obtained from Mexico was almost entirely devoid of Mexicans living there.

California was already revolting against Mexico. Texas had already declared independence and then joined the US. The entire south of Mexico (now the countries comprising Central America) had separated 20 years earlier leaving them with infrastructure issues. They were suffering infighting and the roots of a civil war and hadn't upgraded their arms as they were still using muskets when we had already upgraded to breech loading rifles.

So, really we won due to advanced rifles and poor timing on behalf of Santa Anna.

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