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Friday Jul 07, 2023
Friday Jul 07, 2023
The Mexican-American War lasted from 1846 to 1848. The official cause of the war was Mexican opposition to the American annexation of the Republic of Texas, which had won its freedom from Mexico ten years earlier. However, President James Polk intended to use the war to greatly expand the United States by annexing New Mexico and California, therefore it was the first war fought against a fellow republic to gain territory. Episode Two explains how the newly independent Texans built the Republic of Texas, which gradually became prosperous due to increased immigration and a profitable cotton industry, despite Mexican raids. Still, the Texans hoped for annexation by the United States, but the American government did not appear to be interested.
Cast of Characters:
Sam Houston-First and Third President of the Republic of Texas, former commander of the Texan army, former governor of Tennessee
Santa Anna-President of Mexico
Mirabeau Lamar-Second President of the Republic of Texas, former vice-president and former colonel in the Texan Army
Ed Burleson-Vice-president of the Republic of Texas, former brigadier-general of the Texan Army
Jose Joaquin de Herrera-President of Mexico
Andrew Jackson-former President of the United States, former senator for Tennessee and former general in the US Army
Martin Van Buren-President of the United States, former vice-president, former secretary of state and former governor of New York
Sources:
Sam Houston: The Life and Times of the Liberator of Texas, an Authentic American Hero-John Hoyt Williams
Santa Anna of Mexico-Will Fowler
Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850-Andrew J. Torget
This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy-Matthew Karp
Texas Rising-Stephen L. Moore
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848-Daniel Walker Howe
Mexico: Biography of Power, A History of Modern Mexico, 1810-1996-Enrique Krauze, translated by Hank Heifetz
Image Credit:
By Adolphe Jean-Baptiste Bayot - Originally published in The War Between the United States and Mexico, Illustrated, 1851, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1178283
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