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Article: Mexican-American War
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MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR
MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR
(1846
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1848). The war's remote causes included diplomatic indiscretions during the first decade of American-Mexican relations, as well as the effects of the Mexican revolutions, during which American citizens suffered physical injury and property losses. Its more immediate cause was the annexation of Texas. The Mexican government refused to recognize Texas as independent or the Rio Grande as an international boundary. It first withdrew its minister from Washington, D.C., and then severed diplomatic relations in March 1845.
President James K. Polk anticipated military action and sent Brigadier General Zachary Taylor with his force from ...