"Battles That Defined Mexican-American War" Topic
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| Tango01 | 09 Dec 2020 4:31 p.m. PST |
"On May 13, 1846, the United States Congress, egged on President James K. Polk, declared war on Mexico. In 1879, Ulysses S. Grant, who had fought in the war as a strapping young lad, described the whole affair as "wicked" and that the land grab made him "ashamed of [his] country." Abraham Lincoln was a freshman in the House of Representatives during the war, and he was one of its harshest critics. Alas, Mr. Lincoln was voted in to office after war had already been declared. It wasn't just Whigs who opposed the war, either. John C. Calhoun, one of Polk's fellow Democrats, was relentless in opposing Manifest Destiny. For him, like the Whigs in the North, any territory taken from Mexico would only augment the wound of slavery throughout the republic…"
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