Warfare Through The Ages: The Mexican-American War

[RedGoblinus]

On this day - January 24th 1848 - James W. Marshall discovered gold in California, USA. Thus starting the great Gold Rush. How do I know this? - it says so on a calendar given to me by a stationery supplier based in Birmingham, England !!!! Were it not for the U.S. Mexican Border War of the late 1840s then that Californian gold would have belonged to Mexico as California was ceded by Mexico to the U.S. just months before the discovery of gold.

[RedGoblinus]

@RevBillyRayCollins It's ironic that from the time of Hernando Cortés and the Spanish Conquistadors of the 1500s, one of the main reasons for the Spanish colonizing the Americas was to find gold. The Spanish and their descendants had held California for some 300 years and failed to find gold. The USA had held California for just a few months when they struck the golden jackpot !!!

[kill2beborn]

We defeated the US plenty of times until this time, and we decided to give them Texas. Simply like that Gentlemen

[calman1951]

@kill2beborn Is "give" Mexispeak for We got Our asses kicked and Our dictator captured?And to save His worthless hide He surrenderd?

[kill2beborn]

@calman1951 Yup

[calman1951]

@kill2beborn Bottom line Sir-not when it counted.

[nick91257]

Everything. The U.S do they do

[RevBillyRayCollins]

@nick91257 How so?

[nick91257]

Mexican are copy cats

[DSD1v57BG32]

@nick91257 Everyone copies everyone else, it's very rare that original ideas are made in modern times, because most are offspring of other older ideals, so everything is copied from one another.

[RevBillyRayCollins]

Really, two people disliked this? Must have been relatives of Santa Anna....

[RedGoblinus]

Great video, I'd like to give special mention to William J. Worth. When U.S. forces entered Mexico City, General Worth personally climbed to the roof of the National Palace and took down the Mexican flag replacing it with the Stars and Stripes. My own ancestor - John de Havilland - served under the great General as an Adjutant of the 3rd U.S. dragoons. God Bless America and her great military.

[RevBillyRayCollins]

@RedGoblinus Cool story!

[RedGoblinus]

@RevBillyRayCollins Unfortunately, William J. Worth died from cholera in 1849 so he doesn't seem to be remembered these days - in military terms - quite like the likes of Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis and Zachary Taylor are that also distinguished themselves in the US Mexican border war. However, the cities of Fort Worth in Texas and Lake Worth in Texas, the village of Worth in Illinois, Worth County in Georgia and the Lake Worth Lagoon in Florida were all named so in his honour.