X-Nico

unusual facts about Mexican American War



La Galarza

During the Mexican American War the site of the town was open country, and the location of the Affair at Galaxara Pass a battle between the Mexican Light Corps under Gen. Joaquín Rea and American forces under Gen. Joseph Lane.


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Duncan Smith

William Duncan Smith, United States Army officer who fought in the Mexican–American War

Inflatable boat

In 1848 General George Cullum, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, introduced a rubber coated fabric inflatable bridge pontoon which was used in the Mexican-American War and later on to a limited extent during the American Civil War.

John Gaines

John P. Gaines (1795–1857), lawyer, U.S. Representative from Kentucky, Mexican-American War officer, Governor of Oregon Territory

Jon Riley

In historical-fiction, Riley features in James Alexander Thom's novel St Patrick's Battalion: A Novel of the Mexican-American War, pub.

José Antonio Laureano de Zubiría

He may have passed on some of his views to Ramón Ortiz y Miera, who came to study under him in Durango in 1832, and later was repatriate commissioner after the Mexican-American War.

Justin Smith

Justin Harvey Smith (1857–1930), American historian, specialist on the Mexican-American War

M1841 Mississippi rifle

The nickname "Mississippi" originated in the Mexican–American War when future Confederate president Jefferson Davis was appointed Colonel of a Mississippi volunteer regiment; the Mississippi Rifles.

Niños

The Niños Héroes, six famous soldiers during the Mexican-American War.

Pacific Campaign

Pacific Coast Campaign, United States naval operations against targets along Mexico's Pacific Coast during the Mexican-American War

Samuel Walker

Samuel Hamilton Walker (1817–1847), U.S. Army major in the Mexican-American War and a Texas Rangers captain

Wilmot

Wilmot Proviso, a rider on an 1846 appropriations bill meant to prevent slavery in territories acquired in the Mexican-American War