“POOR MEXICO, SO FAR FROM GOD…” PORFIRIO DIAZ

SECTIONALISM

CONQUEST

SLAVERY

LESSONS OF WAR

DESSENT

MEXICO

1823 STEPHEN AUSTIN

1824 MEXICAN INDEPENCENCE; MEXICO FORMS A REPUBLIC

NEW MEXICAN CONSTITUTION

1836 TEXAS WINS ITS INDEPENDENCE

MEXICO NEVER RECOGNIZES TEXAS

1845 (US ELECTION YEAR) TEXAS ASKS FOR STATEHOOD

TYLER ON EVE OF LEAVING GRANTS IT

“MR. POLK’S WAR”

POLK (DEMOCRAT) ARDENT EXPANSIONIST

RELATIONS W/MEXICO DETERIORATE

MEXICO

SLIDELL TO MEXICO

POLK SENDS GEN. ZACHARY TAYLOR W/3500 MEN TO RIO GRANDE (“ARMY OF OBSERVATION”)

1846

8 MAY PALO ALTO

9 MAY RESACA DE LA PALMA

13 MAY DECLARATION OF WAR

18 MAY TAYLOR CROSSES RIO GRANDE

MAY-JULY AWAITING TRANS TAYLOR TRAINS VOLS

20-24 SEPTEMBER MONTEREY

MEXICO

1847 22-23 FEBRUARY BUENA VISTA

4,700 V 20,000

WINFIELD SCOTT

MARCH 1847 LANDS AT VERA CRUZ

9-29 MARCH-SIEGE OF VERA CRUZ

8 APRIL SCOTT CUTS LINES DRIVES TO MEXICO CITY

18 APRIL-CERRO GORDO

19-20 APRIL CONTRERAS AND CHURUBUSCO

8 SEPTEMBER-MOLINA DEL REY

13 SPTEMBER CHAPULTEPEC

13-15 SEPTEMBER MEXICO CITY

MEXICO

WHAT TO REMEMBER

TYLER-A WHIG BECAME PRESIDENT

SCOTT-A WHIG DID NOT

SCOTT’S CAMPAIGN

BOLD WATER-BOUND ENVELOPMENT

SHORTEST ROUTE TO CAPITAL

WAR FOUGHT SO RECONCILIATION POSSIBLE

GRANT, LEE, LONGSRTEET, SHERMAN, THOMAS, HARDY, BRAGG, MCCLELLAN, J.E. JOHNSTON, BEAUREGARD, HANCOCK, PICKETT, A.S.JOHNSTON, MEADE, DAVIS, HOOKER