MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
THE MEXICAN AMERICAN WAR
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1846 to 1848
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1802 to 1804
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1865 to 1871
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1812 to 1814
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1939 to 1945
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Mexican-American War was a conflict between the United States and Mexico, fought from April 1846 to February 1848.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Mexican-American War of 1846 to 1848 marked the first U.S. armed conflict chiefly fought on foreign soil. It pitted a politically divided and militarily unprepared Mexico against the expansionist-minded administration of U.S. President James K.
Detailed explanation-3: -On May 12, 1846, the United States Senate voted 40 to 2 to go to war with Mexico. President James K. Polk had accused Mexican troops of having attacked Americans on U.S. soil, north of the Rio Grande.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which brought an official end to the Mexican-American War (1846-48), was signed on February 2, 1848, at Guadalupe Hidalgo, a city to which the Mexican government had fled with the advance of U.S. forces.