Inspired by way of the outcome of the French Revolution and revolutionaries of the identical cause, the top type Creoles started out to assist the Revolutionaries' cause.
The war—in which U.S. forces were constantly victorious—resulted in the United States' acquisition of extra than 500,000 square miles (1,300,000 square km) of Mexican territory extending westward from the Rio Grande to the Pacific Ocean.
On May 12, 1846, the United States Senate voted forty to two to go to combat with Mexico. President James K. Polk had accused Mexican troops of having attacked Americans on U.S. soil, north of the Rio Grande. But Mexico claimed this land as its own territory and accused the American army of having invaded.
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