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A History of Chicanos/Mexicanos Along the U. S.-Mexico Border
From: Handbook of Hispanic Cultures in the United States: History

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
From: The Mexican War

BIOGRAPHIES OF NOTABLE PEOPLE
From: The Mexican War

Manifest Destiny
From: Student Almanac of Hispanic American History, Volume 1

CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS
From: The Mexican War

Creation Generation
From: Encyclopedia of Racism in the United States

INTRODUCTION
From: The Mexican War

LEGACIES
From: The Mexican War

Mexican-American War (1846–1848)
From: Historical Dictionary of U.S.-Latin American Relations

The Early Republic
From: DOCUMENTS OF AMERICAN DIPLOMACY

SCOTT’S CAMPAIGN
From: The Mexican War

The Aftermath of Independence, 1821–1876
From: The History of Mexico

The Monroe Doctrine, Manifest Destiny, and the Mexican War
From: BORDERS AND BRIDGES

THE NORTHERN WAR
From: The Mexican War

THE TREATY OF GUADALUPE HIDALGO
From: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF THE MEXICAN AMERICANS

TREATY OF GUADALUPE HIDALGO (1848)
From: Latinas in the United States

U.S.-Mexican War (1846–1848)
From: Student Almanac of Hispanic American History, Volume 1

U.S.-MEXICAN WAR (1846–1848)
From: Latinas in the United States

U.S.-MEXICAN WAR, 1846–1848.
From: The Mexican American Experience

U.S.–Mexican War (1846–48).
From: The Borderlands

“Not Counting Mexicans”
From: North from Mexico

WAR
From: The Mexican War

War with Mexico: Race, Borders, and Manifest Destiny
From: Race Relations in America

Plan de Iguala, February 24, 1821
http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/iguala.htm

Treaty of Cahuenga (a.k.a. Cahuenga Capitulation), 1847
http://www.militarymuseum.org/Cahuenga.html

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo; February 2, 1848
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/mexico/guadhida.htm

Volunteers—The questionable martial skills of volunteer soldiers bound for Taylor’s army were satirized in this cartoon in which most are lacking uniforms and the first man in the ranks carries a parasol rather than a musket. The officer fares no better as he inspects his new charges through a monocle, his most prominent feature a weak chin. Actually, the volunteers exhibited such undisciplined and occasionally criminal behavior that they caused considerable trouble for the army and were never popular with regular troops or officers.

Hasty Bowl of Soup—Playing on Winfield Scott’s claim that he had been so busy preparing for the war that he had only left his desk for “a hasty bowl of soup,” the cartoonist parodies President Polk’s decision to supersede the politically popular Taylor with Scott by having Scott smother Taylor with a bowl of soup.

Flight from Buena Vista—Santa Anna’s first military campaign of the Mexican War was aimed at destroying Zachary Taylor’s depleted and overextended army, but the battle fought at Buena Vista ended with Taylor’s army intact and Santa Anna forced to retire from the field. The depiction here characterizes that withdrawal as a “flight,” which is an exaggeration, although the bad effect on already battered Mexican morale was no less telling.

American Victory at Cerro Gordo—Winfield Scott’s significant victory over Santa Anna at Cerro Gordo is here satirized by again invoking the “hasty bowl of soup” catchphrase that hounded Scott throughout the war. Scott is lampooned for his enjoyment of extravagant pleasures, and Polk’s imprudent decision to allow Santa Anna back into Mexico expecting that he would end the war is disparaged with the passport that appears in the lower right-hand corner.

Scott Enters Mexico City—The march to and the taking of Mexico City were lauded as among the most notable military achievements of the age by no less than the Duke of Wellington. Scott’s triumphal entry into the Mexican capital signaled the end of fighting but not necessarily the end of the war, which required hardheaded diplomacy that stretched into weeks.

The Battle of Churubusco during the Mexican War.

The U.S.-Mexican War was founght on two fronts. The main one was south of the Río Grande, in what is still Mexican territory today. The battles took place in California, both in the south and in the San Francisco area. With Mexico’s defeat in the war, California, and much of the rest of Mexico’s Far North, became U.S. territory.