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Beginning the War
To fight Mexico, the United States had to mobilize, equip, and transport a large force, including both army and navy ...
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The Mexican American War
Worth, during the Mexican-American War.1855. Library of Congress. In 1844, President James K. Polk ran on a Democratic platform that supported manifest destiny, the idea that Americans were ...
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SHIPS FOR MEXICAN NAVY.; Two American-Built Gunboats Added to Republic's Little Fleet.
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Lee Howard: What's Going On: New London whaleship crew stakes a claim to saving San Diego
The book, subtitled "The Whaleship Stonington in the Mexican-American War" (Globe Pequot Press ... based in New London that in 1846 was ordered into the service of the U.S. Navy off the coast of ...