Mexican–American War
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The Mexican–American War, also known in the United States as the Mexican War and in Mexico as the United States intervention in Mexico, was an invasion of Mexico by the United States. It followed the
Nebel Mexican War 12 Scott in Mexico City
Battle of Churubusco 3
Attack on Chapultepec, Sept. 13th 1847 Mexicans routed with great loss E.B. & E.C. Kellogg, N.Y. & Hartford, Conn.; D. Needham, Buffalo. LCCN98516127
Battle of Cerro Gordo
James K. Polk
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James Knox Polk was the 11th president of the United States, serving from 1845 to 1849. A protégé of Andrew Jackson and a member of the Democratic Party, he was an advocate of American expansionism an
Mexican–American War
…state, upsetting the balance of power between Northern free states and Southern slave states. In the 1844 United States presidential election, Democrat James K. Polk was elected on a platform of expanding U.S. territory to Oregon, California (also Mexican territory), and Texas by any means, with the 1845 annexation…
Portrait, c. 1849
Reconstruction of the log cabin in Pineville, North Carolina, where Polk was born
c. 1846–49 daguerreotype of James K. Polk and his wife Sarah Childress Polk
The James K. Polk Home where he spent his young adult life in Columbia, Tennessee, is his only private residence still standing.