The Mexican War

Mexican War

What was this war about? What did the United States achieve, if anything, as a result of this war?

For the United States, the Mexican War that was declared on 13 May, 1846 played a significant part in a developing a number of objectives. The first is the political objective of the American nationalism expansion. The second is the military objective and strategy to force Mexico to sign a treaty that would allow them to acquired Texas, California, New Mexico, and Arizona.

The United States main political objective was to include New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California to the union. These territories were parts of Mexico that became part of Mexico after the Mexican Independence against the Spanish. Unfortunately, the Mexicans had not done much to settle any of these territories, which were largely populated by Indians and missionaries at that time. As Americans migrated into these territories and became the majority of the population, Mexico could not grant decision based on majority will, due to the fact that American rather be part of the American Union, rather than Mexico. But, the one factor that ignited the war was the admission of slaveholding Texas to the union. In Mexico's view," the recognition of Texas by United States to admit the state into the union despised their slave ownership; it was a simple act of imperialism". THIS QUOTE HAS NO ATTRIBUTION! Unfortunately, Mexican and United States nationalism could not come to terms and war was the only option.

Now, the Mexican War would become a new learning experience from a military objective and strategy for the simple fact that this would be the first offensive war for the United States. There was no question in regards to defeating the larger Mexican Army, the American army could mobilize and provide a more efficient force. Furthermore, the industrial economy was superior to that of the Mexican economy. It was never the plan of the United States to destroy Mexico and invade their whole country, but to simply create the offensive plan to make the Mexican government to give up its claims to the disputed territories. President Polk, as Commander in Chief played a significant role in not only planning the offensive plans, but in the supervision of the military staff, and even to the selection of the leaders that would execute the missions in the war. The two primary military improvements in the Mexican War were the field artillery and amphibious operations. Field artillery had significantly become a lot more mobile by the use of horses. Now, the steam-powered riverboats allowed the American army to execute a number of amphibious operations that were effective in infiltrating Mexico.

During the Mexican War, the president of Mexico was Antonio Lopez De Santa Anna. Despite a great number of killed soldiers he would not accede to American demands. So, it left President