S presidential election of 1844 tensions rose in Mexico City. Mexico had warned the United States again and again that annexing Texas would cause a war. It was no threat to the U. S. On June 16, 1845, the Texas Congress accepts U. S offer of annexation. In the war there were a lot of battles. The battles were the battle of Monterrey, the Battle of Buena Vista, the Battle of Veracruz, the Battle of Cerro Gordo, the Battle of Contreras, the Battle of Churubusco, the Battle of El Molino del Rey, the Battle of El Molino del Rey, and the Battle of Chapultepec.
The Battle of Palo Alto, it was the first major engagement of the Mexican American War, and it was fought on May 8, 1846. Weeks earlier, U. S General Taylor Z. Taylor had led 3,000 troops to the Rio Grande and established Fort Texas opposite the Mexican City of Matamoros, as well as a supply base, Fort Polk, at Point Isabel about forty miles away on the Gulf Coast. Mexican General Mariano Arista countered by bringing a 4,000-man force to Matamoros. He crossed the Rio Grande and headed to place his army between Taylor and his supply base, while putting Fort Texas under siege.
Taylor managed to slip past Arista’s trap with the bulk of his forces on May 1, but left behind a small American garrison in dire straits. Taylor moved to Point Isabel, gathered all available supplies and reinforcements, and moved with a column of 2,200 men to the relief of Fort Texas. Arista left forces to continue the siege while he led 3,400 troops north to intercept Taylor. The two armies located each other at the scrubby crossroads of Palo Alto in the early afternoon of May 8. Each side deployed their troops, and the American troops stepped boldly forward to within 800 yards of the Mexicans.
The Essay on Mexican War
The Mexican War---Was It in the National Interest? Most Americans were advocates of expanding the Union to make a larger stronger country, but some also saw the Mexican War as a barefaced plot to expand slavery; however, the Mexican War was seen as something that was necessary to settle disputes between the two countries, and through the support of the "Manifest Destiny," the unresolved conflict ...
Almost immediately the superiority of the U. S. cannons and artillery tactics came to bear. The battle consisted mostly of a lopsided artillery duel. Arista ordered his troops out of action and moved to a strong defensive position at Resaca de la Palma. Arista lost between 250 and 400 men at Palo Alto, double the number of American losses. Another battle was the Battle of Churubusco, fought on August 20, 1847, which was part of a longer operation by U. S. forces under General Scott against Mexican General Lopez de Santa Anna’s defense of Mexico City.
The San Practicio Battalion also fought alongside the Mexicans courageously. Many of the San Practicios were captured at Churubusco and sentenced to death for being traitors. The two battles—Contreras and Churubusco—had eliminated 10,000 Mexican troops from the defense of the city, and resulted in the loss of 1,000 killed, wounded, and missing Americans. The U. S. launched two major assaults on August 20, 1847, as part of General Winfield Scott’s sophisticated strategy to neutralize the 36,000-man army assembled by General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna to defend Mexico City.
On August 20, 1847, American forces attacked the entrenched Mexican army near the town of Contreras, just outside of Mexico City. The Mexicans had made camp a little too far from reinforcements, and American General Smith made them pay, launching a swift surprise attack at dawn. Valencia’s force was broken in minutes at the Battle of Contreras and eliminated as a viable force for the defense of Mexico City. American General Winfield Scott followed the attack later in the day at the Battle of Churubusco. Another battle was the battle of Chapultepec, which was on the morning of September 13, 1847.
The United States Army was ready to attack the Castle of Chapultepec, the most imposing fortress they had seen in Mexico. The Mexican cadets of the Colegio Militar (Military College) were getting ready to defend the castle. Meanwhile a Mexican unit captured by the Americans that was sentenced to die as soon as soon as the Americans captured the castle. There were only two ways the Americans could force their way in – knock down the front gate or climb over the walls on long, shaky scaling ladders. The castle was small it was only able to hold two hundred fifty defenders inside and fifty were cadets.
The Homework on Difference Between Mexican And American Culture
Even though the American culture and Mexican culture have similarities, they are more different than alike. Me being Mexican-American and living so close to the Mexican-American border, I’m very familiar with these two cultures. Some differences are sports, form of speaking, and even dinner time. These might be shocking, but very true. One of the major differences is sports. In the Mexican ...
The cadets were a little younger than the men of Company E. During the battle, six cadets were killed, another three were wounded, and thirty seven were taken prisoner. The brave cadets became known as Los Ninos Heroes, the Heroic Children, for their heroism in support of their nation. The battle began with an American artillery barrage against the castle. The Company E ran in and using their guns as soon as they ran out of ammo they used their guns are weapons or the bayonets hooked on it and charged them. Since the Americans outnumbered the Mexican soldiers, they Mexicans had no choice but to surrender.
The San Practicio Battalion knew after the United States raised their flag over the Castle of Chapultepec they would be hanged from leaving and joining the Mexicans. Who were the soldiers? The majority of Americans who served in the War with Mexico were young, in their late teens and early twenties. Many of them had never been away from home before. They enlisted for glory and adventure. What they got was a bitter dose of reality; heat, dust, boredom, insects, disease and all too frequently, death – more often caused by illness than by enemy bullets. One thing is that being a soldier in the U.
S. -Mexican War was an uncomfortable, unhealthy, and dangerous business. Disease killed more men than bullets. This is due to unsanitary camp conditions. Primitive medical techniques along with delays in treatment was another reason for the deaths of many battle wounded who might otherwise have recovered had they received prompt and proper care and attention. The weapons used by soldiers in the Mexican War were generally muzzle-loading rifles or muskets, with the latter predominating since they were quicker and easier to load, although their range and accuracy left something to be desired.
Dragoons and Texas Rangers usually carried five or six-shot Colt revolvers. The Texas volunteers were especially notorious for arming themselves to the teeth with an assortment of pistols, knives and revolvers tucked into boots, belts and shirts. The average Mexican infantryman carried an old flintlock musket. Tending to use too much powder, many Mexican soldiers fired from the hip, rather than raising the rifle up to their shoulder where the kick could be especially painful. The result was that their shots would often go over the heads of the Americans.
The Essay on Were Blundering Politicians The Main Political Cause Of The American Civil War
Discuss the view that the main political cause of the American civil war was the leadership failings of a blundering generation It is felt by many that the main cause of the American civil war was the failings of politicians such as Stephen Douglas, Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan. They are considered to have made a series of political blunders, such as Douglass handling of the Kansas - ...
Mexico did not have enough well-trained soldiers and civilian officials and police. The uniforms of the regular U. S. Army were made of wool and were sky-blue for privates and a darker, Navy-blue for non-coms and officers. Both enlisted and officers wore dark-blue forage caps, although generals often sported a fancy chapeau replete with feathers. Various insignia indicated whether a soldier was an infantryman, artilleryman or dragoon. Volunteers wore a variety of uniforms, often modeled after the regular army.
