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  • Invasión Yanqui(421 clicks)
    The Mexican War. Interactive site.
  • Merchant Marine in the Mexican-American War(531 clicks)
    Role of the merchant marine in the war.
  • Mexican and Civil War Books (189 image records)(457 clicks)
  • Mexican-American War Memorial Homepage(421 clicks)
    From Mexico. In English or Spanish
  • Monuments, Manifest Destiny, and Mexico(680 clicks)
    by Michael Dear
  • The Impact of the U.S.-Mexican War(433 clicks)
    Short but valuable essay on the war's impact.
  • The Mexican-American War and the Media(483 clicks)
    Transcriptions of over 5700 newspapers articles published in the Times (London), the Niles' National Register, the Richmond Whig, and the Martinsburg Gazette between 1845 and 1848 relevant to the Mexican-American war. Also includes links to digital archives with illustrations from the period, chronologies, and bibliographies.
  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1848(437 clicks)
    By which Mexico lost 45% of its territory.
  • Two Bloody Days at Buena Vista(467 clicks)
    The most important battle of the Mexican War.
  • US-Mexican War(458 clicks)
    PBS site
  • War Message of President Polk, May 11, 1846(415 clicks)
    In order to get Congress to declare war on Mexico, Polk made the dubious, at best, claim that American blood had been spilled on American soil,