“It is very easy to put a country into combustion, when it possesses the elements of discord; but the difficulties of its re-organization are infinite” Lorenzo de Zavala From: Henderson, Timothy J. The Mexican Wars for Independence. New York: Hill and Wang, 2009.
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Mexican- American War: Part 1
As one of the more formative events in the establishment of the United States as one of the world’s great powers, it is strange that the Mexican- American War has been so willingly forgotten. Sandwiched as it was between America’s two Wars of Independence (the American Revolution and the War of 1812) and the American…
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