Mexican-American War (1846-1848)
The Great Territorial Loss
From the perspective of the United States, the Mexican-American War, together with the Louisiana Purchase, represented important land acquisitions as part of the country's relentless expansion westward. In this regard, Kurth (1999) reports that, "There were grand achievements in this national project of continental expansion, especially the southwestern annexations, which were achieved through U.S. military victory in the Mexican-American War. In this case, the United States took advantage of the fact that Britain and France were disrupted by serious internal turmoil."
With Britain and France otherwise occupied with their more immediate domestic issues, the U.S. was free to pursue its expansionist Manifest Destiny plans for the Western regions of the country, including most especially California and its vast resources and temperate weather.
From the perspective of the Mexicans, though, the invasion by the United States was a heavy-handed blow by an international bully that had provoked a war just to acquire land. The U.S. invasion of Mexico in 1846 resulted in the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that secured an enormous amount of territory from Mexico, including Texas, New Mexico, and California, for the United States.
Not surprisingly, this humiliating defeat has been the source of longstanding bitterness against the United States by Mexico. The Mexican -- American War that was fought between the United States and Mexico is described by Reiter as being "a semi-exclusionary, moderately repressive regime fighting a long losing war."
Following Mexico's loss to the United States, Mexican president Antonio Lopez Santa Anna fled to Venezuela in exile.
The exiled president's end, though, was not as ignominious as the act indicates. In this regard, Reiter reports that, "Santa Anna resigned the presidency voluntarily, he did so while the war was ongoing (September 1847), and even after he resigned as president he kept his position as leader of Mexico's army."
Although the new Mexican president, Manuel Pena y Pena (who was appointed by Santa Anna)...
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