03USMC said:Well in a way that hits pretty close to what some people in Mexico think. Certain factions in Mexico and in the US see the Mexican War as stealing of the Southwest by a US goverment bent on manifest destiny. However these people seldom take into account General Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana's saber rattling over Texas and illegal incursions into Texas.
On the other side people tend to forget that the US baited Mexico into confrontation by troop movements and diplomatoc means.
Charge 7 said:It shouldn't be forgotten that in the Gadsden Purchase of 1854 we paid for much of that land.
airmanpatroler said:03USMC said:Well in a way that hits pretty close to what some people in Mexico think. Certain factions in Mexico and in the US see the Mexican War as stealing of the Southwest by a US goverment bent on manifest destiny. However these people seldom take into account General Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana's saber rattling over Texas and illegal incursions into Texas.
On the other side people tend to forget that the US baited Mexico into confrontation by troop movements and diplomatoc means.
hey now santa anna invaded TEXAS not the USA the USA eventually annexed Texas and declared war on mexico. Why? because The United States felt they had an obligation after The Alamo when the volunteers came from all over the USA; however; the Texan forces still defeated santa anna. Then Old Fuss and Feathers swept down and took a tour of the halls of montezuma.
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