See? Us Mexicans care for you!

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IIRC, we offered them $30,000,000 for the land before the war and gave them $15,000,000 after it.

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I believe we actually purchased the land after we won the Mexican-American War. That's just how nice we are.

Only the southern parts of New Mexico and Arizona (1853). The majority was aquired in the peace treaty after the war (1846-1848)

Actually, we purchased the land in the peace treaty as well. We just got far better terms then.

Yeah, I'm not talking about the Gadsden Purchase.

IIRC, we offered them $30,000,000 for the land before the war and gave them $15,000,000 after it.

When you force a country to give up half its territory and then give 15 million so they will stop crying, I wouldn't really call it a purchase

Never said it was, I just wanted to get it cleared up.

IIRC,
Polk was ready to declare war using Mexico's unpaid depts as justification when the "invasion" occured.

Basically the troops were sent to provoke a war.



"We were sent to provoke a fight, but it was essential that Mexico should commence it."
- Ulysses S. Grant

http://www.bartleby.com/1011/4.html

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The Mexicans could have very likely have won the Mexican-American war provided they had a properly trained military. The equipment and uniforms they had were far superior to what the US was using at the time. The US army lacked good weaponry and had bulky uniforms. In actuality this has been a huge problem with our military for a very long time but they certainly have finally pretty much straightened it out by now.

Keeping the same government would of helped too.