Mexican–American War (1846-1848). ⚔️ How US became Great

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⚔️ As a result of the Mexican–American War of 1846, the United States not only doubled its territory, but also began to dominate the American continent.
⏱ Content:
0:00 Background to the conflict
3:31 Texas Revolution
6:50 Start of hostilities
8:28 California campaign
9:56 New Mexico campaign
11:39 Northeastern Mexico
14:26 Scott's invasion of Mexico's heartland
16:03 End of hostilities

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[Mechanix.Illustrated]

Such a good video! That should have more views

[darkpharaon]

I do not a think there was ever a more wicked war than that waged by the United States on México.
I thougth so at the time, when i was a youngster, only i has not moral courage enough to resign

.- Ulysses S.Grant president of The United States

[ytuberrRolid]

Regarding US interests in annexing all of Mexico, another reason Congress decided not to do this was over the issue of slavery. Adding new states from acquired territory would could have potentially created new slave states and worsened relations between slave and free states. Congress essentially decided it was not worth causing a crisis leading up to the Civil War that occurred anyway

[OldHickoryAndyJackson]

Zachary Taylor was an artillery expert

[scott]

Was it 15 Million dollars or pesos? Everywhere else that I look, it says dollars, not pesos

[alexmeyjes]

no this should be called the next step to empire

[peterkragelund]

You ought to correct the glitch that shows the avatar of Scott being the general that defeats Santa Anna and occupies "the Halls of Montezuma" but bearing Taylors name!

[Jameswebbtelescope]

Interesting video. Though I bit of a error at 6:20. It wasn’t Mexico who declared war. Now they did attack the troops their but Polk convinced congress to declare war on Mexico as a result of the attack. america fired the first shot and thus made the first move.

[kraigthorne]

The US Army invented what was known as flying artillery. This new weapon made it so six guns could kill hundreds of soldiers in combat formation in less than a minute. This is the reason the US Army was able to win every battle where they had artillery.

[JDDC-tqqm]

Not a fan of USA but that was a solid victory for the Americans

[ElmayorD]

Mexico was in the midle of internal turmoil, thats why there was no a proper response, mexicans was more concerned of taking goverment control than figth the americans

[LuisSanches-cpir]

Y con el paso del tiempo cada vez hay ciudadanos de origen mexicano en los territorios pérdidos, poco a poco recuperando lo perdido y esperando una oportunidad, ya se tuvo esa oportunidad y se dejó ir, cuando la segunda guerra mundial, toc esperar la siguiente gran guerra y ahora si ponernos del lado contrario e invadir por el sur, mientras los gringos esten ocupados en Europa, si, europa, alli siempre es la guerra .

[kyrenthang]

I already know a bit about the Mexican - American war, a war that Ulysses S. Grant called "The most unjust war ever fought". I got the immediate impression that the narrator blamed the Mexicans for not making clear and enforcing their the laws which is untrue. You have to realize the type of people the Texas settlers were.
They deserted the US because the US had too stringent laws on slavery, they swore allegiance to Mexico and were informed of the Mexican laws on slavery which they promptly ignored and in revolt persuaded the US into war with Mexico re-swearing their allegiance to the US. They again promptly broke their word and joined the Confederacy because of it's stance on slavery and after participating in and losing a war against the US they re-swore their oath of allegiance. Today Texas is renowned as a cesspool of cock-eyed conspirators. The US would have done better to let Mexico keep Texas and everything in it.

[kennethgustafson]

I'm sure it may not matter to most, but the map should have Buena Vista just south of Saltillo.

[SirBedevereTheWise]

I'm just trying to figure out how the military of the time made it across texas so fast and yet it takes all day driving across it today 🤷🏼‍♂️

[baer]

Let’s forget about the 15 million dollars that Mexico owed the USA ….

[captainfanta]

By stealing lands that belong to other people.

[tylerclayton]

We should have taken Baja California as well. Ah well…too late now

[DontUputThatEvilOnMe]

Looking back Mexico should have took the 21 mil the USA originally offered.