In the month of May, two key anniversaries that spurred the Civil War into motion occurred between the United States and Mexico over a conflict that centered on Texas. The Mexican-American War ...

Modern historians view the Mexican-American ... But after arriving in the port of Veracruz, Santa Anna double-crossed Polk and assumed command of the Mexican military. In the U.S., war efforts ...

WARM-UP: Have the students answer the following questions before starting ... on the clips using the Mexican-American War Video Questions Handout (Google Doc). After students finish, review ...

It originated as Decoration Day in May 1868, an annual commemoration in which the graves of the war dead were decorated with flowers. At the time, Maj. Gen. John A. Logan, who served in the ...

The remains of 13 American troops who died in the Mexican-American War more than a century and ... addressed those in attendance before the solemn moment, saying it was an honor welcoming back ...

Can you just kind of tell us what is the lost war? What is this conflict? Sure. The the lost war is really the first Texas Revolution, which was 25 years before the second revolution we all know ...

when two armies faced off there in the climactic battle of the Mexican-American War. After more than a year and a dozen engagements on land and sea, the U.S. had yet to suffer a defeat.

For all that it did, the Mexican-American War is a relatively overlooked conflict in American history. A little more than a year after its defeat ... in 1829, well before the passage of the ...

Marking the first time that Mexican troops had set foot on U.S. soil since the Mexican-American War in 1846, President Vicente Fox sent an army convoy and a naval vessel laden with food ...

MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR. Many of the 10,000 people living in Cleveland in 1846 ... volunteers was jointly raised in Cleveland and Cincinnati in the spring of 1847, after Gen. Winfield Scott had landed at ...