Mexican American War Manifest Destiny

“The Mexican-American War marked the first U.S. armed conflict chiefly fought on foreign soil”. It was fought between the dates 1846-1848, it began with the United States’ annexation of Texas in 1845 and from a dispute over whether Texas ended at the Nueces River, which was the Mexican claim or the Rio Grande, the U.S. claim. The war in which U.S. forces were consistently victorious resulted in the United States’ acquiring more than 500,000 square miles of Mexican territory extending westward from the Rio Grande to the Pacific Ocean. It created a large conflict between Mexico, who was military unprepared and politically divided, and the United States and its administration including President James K Polk whose focus was on expanding, and the nations “manifest destiny” . The manifest destiny was a strong belief in the 19th century held by the people of the Unite States. They believed it was their duty to rebuild the Old West and shape it into the image of “Agrarian America”.

Upon arriving in Gonzalez, he immediately began organizing his army as a resistance. He soon learned about the United States loss at the Alamo on March 13th.Afteer the new learned info on the Alamo, he learned that Santa Anna’s men were advancing northeast and pushing further into Texas. Upon the news, he called a council of war, and discussed the situation with his senior officers. Being out numbered both in militia and artillery he made an immediate withdrawal toward the Us Border where they would flee to Galveston. He soon The Battle of San Jacinto was fought on Aril 21st 1836. The United States were outnumbered with 800 men, compared to Mexico’s 1200