NOUN
- after disputes over Texas lands that were settled by Mexicans the United States declared war on Mexico in 1846 and by treaty in 1848 took Texas and California and Arizona and New Mexico and Nevada and Utah and part of Colorado and paid Mexico $15,000,000
How To Use Mexican War In A Sentence
- He enlisted as a private in the Mexican War.
- His opposition to the policy of militant nationalism which inspiredthe Mexican War had, he believed, ruined his political hopes; and living constantly with the great unhewn stones of his ambition,he was often betrayed, in the early fifties, into a moroseness or dejection of temper, for he saw no way either to rid himselfof his ambitious desires or to put them to a constructive use. FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871
- Braxton, who succeeded as post commander, knew that in European armies and in the old Mexican War days the aiguillette was ordinarily the distinctive badge of general officers or those empowered to give orders in their name. Waring's Peril
- A city of south-central Mexico, a suburb of Mexico City. On February 2, 1848, a treaty ending the Mexican War was signed here. Population, 88,537.
- This one - term president's Mexican War land grab gave us California, Texas, and the Southwest.
- The time was ripe, as the Mexican War had opened a vast area of Western territory for expansion.
- Hill served in the Mexican War and the Seminole Wars; his 1859 marriage to Kitty Morgan was a happy one that produced four daughters.
- During his life he spoke out against the Mexican War and the subjugation of Native America, and campaigned in favor of bioregionalism and the protection of animals and wild areas, but the political issue that roused his indignation more than any other was slavery. Henry David Thoreau
- I'm not talking about the little boys and the Mexican War veterans.
- Then in 1846, with the Mexican War (1846-48) under way, the U.S. government ordered 1,000 Colt revolvers.
