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How the Mexican War Started? Origins of the Mexican American War :

In November 1845, Polk sent John Slidell, a secret representative, to Mexico City with an offer to the Mexican government of $25 million for the Rio Grande border in Texas and Mexico's provinces of Alta California and Santa Fe de Nuevo México. U.S. expansionists wanted California to thwart any British interests in the area and to gain a port on the Pacific Ocean. Polk authorized Slidell to forgive the $3 million owed to U.S. citizens for damages caused by the Mexican War of Independence and pay another $25 to $30 million for the two territories.

Mexico was neither inclined nor able to negotiate. In 1846 alone, the presidency changed hands four times, the war ministry six times, and the finance ministry sixteen times. Despite that, Mexican public opinion and all political factions agreed that selling the territories to the United States would tarnish the national honor. Mexicans who opposed direct conflict with the United States, including President José Joaquín de Herrera, were viewed as traitors. Military opponents of de Herrera, supported by populist newspapers, considered Slidell's presence in Mexico City an insult. When de Herrera considered receiving Slidell to settle the problem of Texas annexation peacefully, he was accused of treason and deposed. After a more nationalistic government under General Mariano Paredes y Arrillaga came to power, it publicly reaffirmed Mexico's claim to Texas an decided to end any diplomatic efforts to avoid a war.

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Narrated by Benjamin Stipanov

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Timecodes
0:00 - Intro
0:50 - Negotiations start
3:06 - Coup d'état in Mexico
3:50 - Polk increases the pressure on Mexico
4:39 - Negotiations fail
6:12 - The Thornton Affair
8:00 - Slidell arrives in Washington
8:24 - War declared
10:09 - Conclusion

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The dead march: A history of the Mexican-American War - Guardino, Peter
A country of vast designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the conquest of the continent - Merry, Robert W.
So far from God: the U.S. war with Mexico, 1846-1848 - Eisenhower, John S.D.
John Tyler, the accidental president - Crapol, Edward P.
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https://hndm.iib.unam.mx/index.php/es/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
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