The War with Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2)
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About This Book
"The War with Mexico" in 2 volumes is one of the best-known works by an American historian Justin Harvey Smith. The Mexican-American War was an armed conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848. It followed in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas, which Mexico still considered Mexican territory since the government did not recognize the treaty signed by Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna when he was a prisoner of the Texian Army during the 1836 Texas Revolution. For Mexico, this was a Mexican forces attacked U.S. forces, and the United States Congress decl...
Chapters (529)
- THE WAR WITH MEXICO
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS OF VOLUME I
- MAPS AND PLANS IN VOLUME ONE
- CONSPECTUS OF EVENTS
- THE PRONUNCIATION OF SPANISH
- I MEXICO AND THE MEXICANS 1800–1845
- II THE POLITICAL EDUCATION OF MEXICO 1800–1845
- III THE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO 1825–1843
- IV THE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO 1843–1846
- V THE MEXICAN ATTITUDE ON THE EVE OF WAR
- VI THE AMERICAN ATTITUDE ON THE EVE OF WAR 1845
- VII THE PRELIMINARIES OF THE CONFLICT April, 1845—April, 1846
- VIII PALO ALTO, RESACA DE LA PALMA May, 1846
- IX THE UNITED STATES MEETS THE CRISIS May—July, 1846
- X THE LEADERS ADVANCE May—September, 1846
- XI TAYLOR SETS OUT FOR SALTILLO June—September, 1846
- XII MONTEREY September, 1846
- XIII SALTILLO, PARRAS, TAMPICO August—December, 1846
- XIV SANTA FE June-September, 1846
- XV CHIHUAHUA December, 1846—May, 1847
- XVI THE CALIFORNIA QUESTION 1836–1846
- XVII THE CONQUEST OF CALIFORNIA 1846–1847
- XVIII THE GENESIS OF TWO CAMPAIGNS July, 1846—February, 1847
- XIX SANTA ANNA PREPARES TO STRIKE September, 1846—February, 1847
- XX BUENA VISTA February, 1847
- NOTES
- KEY TO THE REFERENCES
- PREFACE
- I. MEXICO AND THE MEXICANS
- II. THE POLITICAL EDUCATION OF MEXICO
- III. RELATIONS BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO, 1825–1843
- IV. RELATIONS BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO, 1843–1846
- V. THE MEXICAN ATTITUDE ON THE EVE OF WAR
- VI. THE AMERICAN ATTITUDE ON THE EVE OF WAR
- VII. THE PRELIMINARIES OF THE CONFLICT
- VIII. PALO ALTO, RESACA DE LA PALMA
- IX. THE UNITED STATES MEETS THE CRISIS
- X. THE LEADERS ADVANCE
- XI. TAYLOR SETS OUT FOR SALTILLO
- XII. MONTEREY
- XIII. SALTILLO, PARRAS, TAMPICO
- XIV. SANTA FE
- XV. CHIHUAHUA
- XVI. THE CALIFORNIA QUESTION
- XVII. THE CONQUEST OF CALIFORNIA
- XVIII. THE GENESIS OF TWO CAMPAIGNS
- XIX. SANTA ANNA PREPARES TO STRIKE
- XX. BUENA VISTA
- APPENDIX—THE SOURCES
- A. MANUSCRIPT AND PERSONAL SOURCES
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