Mexican-American War

Most Americans don't hate Mexicans. Some do because of unlawful immigration, bad personal experiences, the crimes allegedly committed by undocumented immigrants, and how undocumented people put a strain on the infrastructure in the US. However, such things do not accurately reflect entire communities of people.

Several US generals led troops in California during the Mexican War. Among them were John C. Fremont and General Philip Kearny.

The Battle of Chapultepec. It was a castle built by the Spanish and used as a military academy by the Mexicans. Chapultepec was the last obstacle on the road between Vera Cruz and Mexico City, and its fall convinced the Mexican government to surrender.

The annexation of Texas plus the border conflict called the Thornton Affair.

Civil war generals wore beards because beards were in fashion in the 1860's.

There were many who could claim such service. One was Benjamin Franklon Highsmith who is credited with service at the Alamo which he left as a courier on 18 February 1836 (at the age of 19.) He saw service at Velasco (age 15), Concepcion, San Jacinto and the Grass Fight. He was wounded at Buena Vista during the Mexican American War and served at Monterrey and Palo Alto. Between wars he served as a Texas Ranger where he saw service against the Commanche Indians at the Battle of Brushy Creek in 1839 and he died at the age of 88 on 20 November 1905.

It became the US States of Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah and New Mexico.

Americans were promised free land, so Americans poured in.

The Zimmermann telegram promised Mexico that it would get back the lost territory in New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona.

Not only that, but Germany promised Mexico that it would help them gain back their territory.

He was Sam Houston's prisoner.

Increased tension in the US over the issue of slavery.

They died of wounds and diseases. More died of diseases then wounds.

Typhoid, Tetanus, Diaherrea, Dysentery, Yellow fever, infections, gunshot wounds, botched surgical procedures, and any number of primary wounds like a horse bite, a horse kick, a wagon wheel rollover, a train derailment, a ship sinking, a bayonet thrust, a Sabre slash or any other reason or rationale. In mortal conflicts people are injured and they die. A foot fungus, an infected toenail, an abseced tooth or a saddle rash when improperly treated can all be listed as the precursor to death. War is a violent process, people die, are crippled or maimed, blinded and mentally incapacitated. The US Civil war differs only because it was one American against another American. In wars, people are wounded, suffer an die.

they died from disease, but more specifically they died from diseases inflicted by amputation from the use of unsanitized surgery material. they would literally saw off the arm using no anesthetic of any kind and then dip the saw into a bucket of dirty water to "cleanse" it and once again call in the next wounded soldier to place upon the bloody table. Also the soldiers would never wash themselves because there was really no time and after eating they were likely to catch an infection of some sort.

Yes, they gave the soldier Rum, to ease the pain, and they would cut off the infected limb just above when they were injured and throw it in a pile of all the other limbs. because of these piles of rotting limbs, the hospitalized soldiers would die of disease because of the poor conditions.

General Winfield Scott surrounds Mexico City and lays siege to the city. The Americans ultimately take control of Mexico City. Because the capital was captured, the war ended.

Very few of the 189 men at the Alamo were actually natives of Texas. A great number of them were from Southern states, such as Tennessee, Kentucky and the Carolinas. At least 32, in fact, came from Tennessee. Some northerners from Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York also stood their ground in the mission. But Europeans were also well represented. At least ten of the patriots were natives of England, and another 11 were from Ireland, a country that knew well the struggle for liberty against oppression. Of the thirty-plus Europeans, some also came from Germany, Denmark, Scotland and Wales.

At the time of the battle, as many as eighty of the Alamo defenders were actually documented residents of Texas, but others had traveled to the fort from various states, volunteering their services for the revolution. Of the estimated 189 men who died in the Alamo, only six were actually born in Texas: Juan Abamillo, Juan A. Badillo, Carlos Espalier, Gregorio Esparza, Antonio Fuentes, and Andrés Nava. This work shall pay tribute to the Tejanos who died at the Alamo:

I don't think they did. But for $10 Million, Mexico did sell the Gadsen Purchase, which is the southern part of New Mexico and Arizona, to the US. This land was a more suitable route for a Trans-Continental Railroad than any more northern location.

They wanted to expand their territories into Mexico, it was the expansion stage of America's development. They formed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo which basically gave America control of California and New Mexico, and everything above the Rio Grande.

The extension of slavery into territories acquired from mexico

For Mexico they had the home field advantage, knowledge of the terrain and resistance to yellow fever.

For the US there was overwhelming strength in numbers and weaponry, but no resistance to yellow fever.

Santa Anna