The Nature of War
While passing through the trans-nueces region, Samuel French said that United States soldiers were killing what kind of venomous snake with poles.
Rattlesnake
Under General Stephen Kearny, the United States occupied this present-day capital city of New Mexico without a fight.
Santa Fe
This American leader described himself as “the hardest working man in this country.” Considering he died in 1849, shortly after the war was over, he may have been telling the truth.
James K. Polk
What famous Civil War General and American president who served in the US-Mexican War later wrote in his memoirs “For myself, I was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation”?
Ulysses S. Grant/ Hiram Ulysses Grant
Soldiers said that when they played funeral dirges after battles, this bird would sing the same tune after.
Mockingbird
The Rio Grande, as it is known is the United States, is called this name in Mexico.
Rio Bravo/ Rio Bravo del Norte
This famous quote "Pobre México, tan lejos de Dios y tan cerca de Estados Unidos.” In English, “Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States.” is often attributed to this famous Mexican leader.
Porfirio Diaz
Captain Ethan Allen Hitchcock, who was unable to serve at the Battle of Palo Alto due to sickness, taught this macabre author at the Military Academy. It might be a "tell-tale" sign of the instructor's literary skills.
Edgar Allan Poe
Following the occupation of Monterrey, the United States Army moved southwest to this capital city of the state of Coahuila.
Saltillo
The US fired indiscriminately at churches, schools, and homes. Mexico estimated that some 500 civilians and 600 soldiers died during the bombardment of this Mexican port city.
Veracruz
This famous senator ran against James K. Polk in the election of 1844. He was opposed to the Annexation of Texas warning that "annexation and war with Mexico are identical." He lost his son and namesake at the Battle of Buena Vista (La Angostura).
Henry Clay
During the war, what famed American author and transendentalist wrote an essay we now know as "Civil Disobedience" during a night in jail for refusing to pay taxes for a war he believed was about extending slavery into the west?
Henry David Thoreau
This South Texas plant with an orange berry takes its name from Mexican Army Captain and Naturalist Jean-Louis Berlandier.
Berlandier's Fiddlewood
In 1854, this settlement permitted the United States to purchase a strip of territory from Mexico, now the southern parts of New Mexico and Arizona, to build a transcontinental railroad through the area.
The Gadsden Purchase/ la Venta de La Mesilla
Polk stated to congress that "American blood" had been "shed on American soil" when this United States Captain led his troops into Rancho de Carricitos the night of April 25th, 1846.
Captain Seth B. Thornton
This Mexican General was a bit upset about his demotion from head command of the Division of the North prior to the Battle of Palo Alto. He would try his luck again in command this time at the Battle of Monterrey.
Pedro de Ampudia
This famous rancher got his start as a riverboat pilot during the US-Mexican War. The ranch he started is now the largest in the US, larger than the state of Rhode Island.
Richard King
In the Memoir of US-Grant he overestimated the number of this animal by listening to its howls. He thought there were 20, it reality there were only two making all that noise.
Wolves
After the war, the Rio Grande marked the boundary between the US and Mexico. In 1864 there was a flood that changed the course of the river. This section of land between El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez was in dispute until 1964 when presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Adolfo Lopez Mateo unveiled a new boundary they had made using a canal
El Chamizal
This Mexican General was captured by Charles May and his Dragoons at the Battle of Resaca de la Palma.
Romulo Diaz de la Vega
Aaron Stevens was a young private enlisted in the first dragoons. He was charged with assaulting a superior officer and sent to Fort Leavenworth in Kansas, where he met and joined with this famous abolitionist. They would end up facing the same fate after an attack on a military arsenal in Harper's Ferry.
John Brown