Timeline of Events in the Mexican-American War

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  • President Polk Orders General Zachary Taylor to March to The Rio Grande

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    Mexican American War

  • The Thornton Affair

    Mexicans were taunted into war.

  • Siege of Fort Texas

  • Battle of Palo Alto

  • Battle of Resaca de la Palma

  • Decleration of War by Congress

    (exact date unavailable)

  • Captain John C. Fremot Proclaims the Indpendence of California

  • John D. Sloat takes Monterrey, California

  • John D. Sloat Seizes Yerba Buena (San Fransisco)

  • Battle of Monterrey

  • Battle of Dominguez Rancho

  • Battle of Natividad

  • Battle of San Pasqual

  • Battle of El Brazito

  • Battle of Santa Clara

  • Battle of Rio San Gabriel (Los Angeles)

  • Battle of La Mesa (Los Angeles)

  • Battle of La Canada

  • Battle of Mora

  • Battle of Embudo Pass

  • Siege of Pueblo de Taos

  • Battle of Buena Vista

  • Battle of Sacramento

  • Siege of Vera Cruz

  • General Winfield Scott Captures Vera Cruz

  • General Scott Drives 15,000 Mexicans From the Pass of Cerro Gordo

  • Affair at Las Vegas, New Mexico

  • Battles of Contreras and Churubusco

  • Battle of El Molino del Rey

  • Battle of Chapultepec

  • Battles for the City of Mexico

  • American Troops Enter the City of Mexico

  • Huamantla Affair

  • Siege of Puebla

  • Atlixco Affair

  • Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo