{"id":95971,"date":"2025-10-16T02:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T06:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=95971"},"modified":"2025-06-04T21:55:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T01:55:42","slug":"the-mexican-american-war-1846-48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/10\/16\/the-mexican-american-war-1846-48\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mexican-American War 1846-48"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/louGkAYgDZc?si=sPtqNBm4yW2_bMzo\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Real Time History<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 16 May 2025<\/p>\n<p>In the early 19th century, the United States and Mexico share a massive cross-continental border, but US settlement in Mexico, expansionist ideals and religious differences put the young republics on a collision course. As tensions boil over into bloodshed, the tiny, inexperienced US army marches to a war which will forge the modern United States.<\/p>\n<p>Chapters:<br \/>\n00:00 Texas Republic<br \/>\n05:06 Declaration of War<br \/>\n07:03 The US Army<br \/>\n09:26 British Muskets in the Mexican Army<br \/>\n16:19 The Mexican Army<br \/>\n18:24 The Battles of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma<br \/>\n21:38 California and New Mexico<br \/>\n25:11 US Volunteers<br \/>\n28:40 Battle of Monterrey<br \/>\n33:03 Expanding the War<br \/>\n36:59 The Pedregal Battles<br \/>\n40:18 Battles for Mexico City<br \/>\n43:42 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo<br \/>\n45:14 Legacy<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u00bb SUPPORT US<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/nebula.tv\/realtimehistory\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/nebula.tv\/realtimehistory<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u00bb THANK YOU TO OUR CO-PRODUCERS<br \/>\nRose Flaglor, Reed Spilmann, Jim Frame, Erik Ritter, Cardboard, Ken Brownfield, David Garfinkle, Raymond Martin, Konstantin Bredyuk, Lisa Anderson, Brad Durbin, Jeremy K Jones, Murray Godfrey, John Ozment, Stephen Parker, Mavrides, Kristina Colburn, Stefan Jackowski, Cardboard, William Kincade, William Wallace, Daniel L Garza, Chris Daley, Malcolm Swan, Christoph Wolf, Simen R\u00f8ste, Jim F Barlow, Taylor Allen, Adam Smith, James Giliberto, Albert B. Knapp MD, Tobias Wildenblanck, Richard L Benkin, Marco Kuhnert, Matt Barnes, Ramon Rijkhoek, Jan, Scott Deederly, gsporie, Kekoa, Bruce G. Hearns, Hans Broberg, Fogeltje<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb SOURCES<br \/>\nAdams, Anton, <em>The War in Mexico<\/em>, (Chicago, IL: Emperor&#8217;s Press, 1998)<br \/>\nBauer, K.J., <em>The Mexican War, 1846\u20131848<\/em>, (New York, NY: Macmillan, 1974)<br \/>\nBelohlavek, John, <em>Patriots, Prostitutes, and Spies: Women and the Mexican-American War<\/em>, (Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2017)<br \/>\nCarnagie, Jule L. &#038; Kelly King Howes (ed.), <em>Mexican-American War<\/em>, (Detroit, MI: UXL, 2003)<br \/>\nChance, Joseph E. (ed.) <em>Mexico Under Fire: being the diary of Samuel Ryan Curtis, 3rd Ohio Volunteer Regiment, during the American military occupation of northern Mexico, 1846-1847<\/em> (Fort Worth, TX: Texas Christian University Press, 1994)<br \/>\nChristensen, Carol &#038; Thomas Christensen, <em>The U.S.-Mexican War<\/em>, (San Francisco, CA: San Francisco Bay Books, 1998)<br \/>\nGiddings, Joshua, &#8220;Debate on the Mexican War&#8221;, <em>House of Representatives<\/em>, (May 13, 1846)<br \/>\nGuardino, Peter F. <em>The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American War<\/em>, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017)<br \/>\nHinckley, Red C., &#8220;American Anti-Catholicism during the Mexican War&#8221; (<em>Pacific Historical Review<\/em>, Vol. 31, Issue 2, 1962)<br \/>\nHuseman Ben W., Sandweiss, Martha A. &#038; Rick Stewart, <em>Eyewitness to War: Prints and Daguerreotypes of the Mexican War<\/em>, (Fort Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum, 1989)<br \/>\nIsenberg, Andrew C, &#038; Thomas Richards Jr. &#8220;Alternative Wests: Rethinking Manifest Destiny&#8221;, <em>Pacific Historical Review<\/em>, Vol. 86, Issue 1 (2017)<br \/>\nJennings, Nathan A., &#8220;Expeditionary land power: lessons from the Mexican-American War&#8221;, <em>Military Review<\/em>, Vol. 97, Issue 1, (2017)<br \/>\nMcCaffrey, James M., <em>Army of Manifest Destiny: American soldier in the Mexican War, 1846-48<\/em>, (New York, NY: New York University Press, 1994)<br \/>\nMerry, Robert W., <em>A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War, and the Conquest of the American Continent<\/em>, (New York, NY: Simon &#038; Schuster, 2009)<br \/>\nPinheiro, John C., <em>Missionaries of Republicanism: A Religious History of the Mexican-American War<\/em>, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014)<br \/>\nWatson, Samuel J. <em>Manifest Destiny and Military Professionalism: Junior U.S. Army Officers&#8217; Attitudes toward War with Mexico, 1844-1846<\/em>, (1996)<br \/>\nZeh, Frederick, <em>An Immigrant Soldier in the Mexican War<\/em>, (College Station, TX: Texas A &#038; M University Press, 1995)<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbCREDITS<br \/>\nPresented by: Jesse Alexander<br \/>\nWritten by: Mark Newton<br \/>\nDirector: Toni Steller<br \/>\nEditing: Toni Steller<br \/>\nMotion Design: Toni Steller<br \/>\nIllustrations: Juan G\u00f3mez Cabello<br \/>\nMixing, Mastering &#038; Sound Design: <a href=\"http:\/\/above-zero.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/above-zero.com<\/a><br \/>\nResearch by: Mark Newton<br \/>\nFact checking: Florian Wittig<br \/>\nExecutive Producer: Florian Wittig<\/p>\n<p>Channel Design: Simon Buckmaster<\/p>\n<p>Contains licensed material by getty images, AP and Reuters<br \/>\nMaps: MapTiler\/OpenStreetMap Contributors &#038; GEOlayers3<br \/>\nMusic Library: Epidemic Sound<\/p>\n<p>All photos and film in our documentaries are authentic historical footage. 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