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4 unusual facts about Mexican War


Canoga Park, Los Angeles

Before the Mexican War the district was part of a rancho, and after the American victory it was converted into wheat farms and then subdivided, with part of it named Owensmouth as a town founded in 1912.

Forage cap

Known as the Bonnet de Police, these caps resembled a nightcap and were also worn by Santa Anna's army during the Mexican War, and by Confederate troops during the American Civil War.

Manville, Indiana

However, a post office existed previously under the name Buena Vista, after the site of a Mexican War battle, opening in 1847.

Varina Davis

He was also gone for extended periods during the Mexican War, when Varina was left under the guardianship of Joseph Davis, whom she had come to dislike intensely.


Hazardville, Connecticut

Production increased over the years in response to the needs of the U.S. military for gunpowder during the Mexican War (1846–1848), demand for blasting powder during the California Gold Rush of 1849, and the Crimean War (1850s), when the Hazard Powder Company supplied both Britain and Russia with gunpowder, shipping a total of 500 tons to Britain.

John Church Hamilton

The sons are General Schuyler Hamilton, who served with distinction in the Mexican War and also the War of the Rebellion; Judge Charles Hamilton, of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin (ed. note: He was actually a judge on one of the circuit courts); William G. Hamilton, the consulting engineer of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company; and Alexander Hamilton of Westchester County.

Massachusetts Correctional Institution – Concord

MCI Concord opened in May 1878 as the New State Prison at Concord with Mexican War veteran General Chamberlain as its warden.

Mexican-American women in the U.S. from 1900–60

LULAC was founded to overcome discrimination and segregation amongst Latinos after the Mexican War, in which many Mexicans became citizens of the United States but still found themselves victims to prejudice.


see also

Albert Ramsey

Albert C. Ramsey (1813–1869) was a member of the United States military during the Mexican–American War who is most notable as the translator of Ramón Alcaraz's history of the Mexican War published as The Other Side: Or Notes for the History of the War between Mexico and the United States.

Aldama

Juan Aldama (1774–1811), insurgent leader in the Mexican War of Independence

Eagle Pass, Texas

Captain Sidney Burbank supervised the construction of Fort Duncan, which was named after Colonel James Duncan, who had fought in the Mexican War.

Fort Duncan

A line of seven army posts were established in 1848-49 after the Mexican War to protect the settlers of West Texas and included Fort Worth, Fort Graham, Fort Gates, Fort Croghan, Fort Martin Scott, Fort Lincoln and Fort Duncan.

Gertrudis

Gertrudis Bocanegra (1765–1817), woman who fought in the Mexican War of Independence

Ignacio López

Ignacio López Rayón (1773-1832), leader of the revolutionary government, during the Mexican War of Independence

Jefferson Barracks Military Post

In 1853, newly elected President Franklin Pierce,who had served as a brigadier general during the Mexican War, appointed Jefferson Davis as his Secretary of War.

John D. McCarty

Soldiers across the Columbia River at Fort Vancouver knew Reverend McCarty from his service as a brigade chaplain in the Mexican War.

Mark Twain in popular culture

In this work of alternate history, he works as a newspaper editor in San Francisco and writes many a scathing editorial against the ongoing Second Mexican War (1881-1882) between the United States and the Confederate States of America.

Ric Birch

In 2010 he will participate in the planning of celebrations to commemorate the 'Grito de Dolores' and the beginning of the Mexican war for independence from Spain.

Twiggs

David E. Twiggs (1790–1862), US soldier during the War of 1812 and Mexican War, and a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War

William Plummer Benton

When Benton was 18 years old, he enlisted as a private in the Mexican War, and fought with gallantry in the mounted infantry at Contreras, Churubusco, Chapultepec and Mexico City.