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US-Mexican War

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The U.S.-Mexican war was a fierce bloodbath between two powerful countries ending with the U.S. acquiring a huge amount of land fulfilling manifest destiny. Many disputes led up to this ferocious clash most of which over the borders of the newly annexed Texas . Eventually these disputes pushed the U.S. to the limit. On March nineteenth 1846 the United States declared war on Mexico starting one of the most influential wars in Texas’ and United States’ history.
When Texas was annexed in 1845 it began a time of increased tension between MExico and the United States. THis is mostly the fact that mexico refused to recognize texas as free or a state of the U.S. . Mexicans believed that texas was a province rebelling against the home country. THere

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