Title: Did we " steal " Texas, Arizona, N.Mex and Calif. from Mexico ? ( Vanity )
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".........waving his hat and shouting "San Jacinto! San Jacinto! The Mexicans are whipped and Santa Anna a prisoner." The scene that followed beggars description. People embraced, laughed and wept and prayed, all in one breath. As the moon rose over the vast flower-decked prairie, the soft southern wind carried peace to tired hearts and grateful slumber. As battles go, San Jacinto was but a skirmish; but with what mighty consequences! The lives and the liberty of a few hundred pioneers at stake and an empire won! Look to it, you Texans of today, with happy homes, mid fields of smiling plenty, that the blood of the Alamo, Goliad, and San Jacinto sealed forever . Texas, one and indivisible!-- Ms. Kate Scurry Terrell describing the scene among refugee families on the Sabine River.
FOREWORD
RETREAT FROM GONZALES
THE MEXICAN PURSUIT
THE ROAD TO SAN JACINTO
"This morning we are in preparation to meet Santa Anna. It is the only chance for saving Texas." In an address "To the People of Texas" he wrote: "We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the contest, and must conquer or perish…We must act now or abandon all hope."
ON THE EVE OF BATTLE
THE BATTLE OF SAN JACINTO
The Battlefield of San Jacinto
( Click here for enlargement)
THE CAPTURE OF SANTA ANNA
Opposing Commanders' Reports
Report of Secretary of War Thomas J. Rusk.
MEXICAN VERSION OF BATTLE

Content: sushiman
From Wikipedia, for what it’s worth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Guadalupe_Hidalgo
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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Cover of the exchange copy of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (Tratado de Guadalupe Hidalgo in Spanish) is the peace treaty, largely dictated by the United States [1] [2] to the interim government of a militarily occupied Mexico, that ended the Mexican-American War (1846–1848). The treaty provided for the Mexican Cession, in which Mexico ceded 1.36 million km² (525,000 square miles; 55% [3] of its pre-war territory, not including Texas) to the United States in exchange for US$15 million (equivalent to $313 million in 2006 dollars) and the ensured safety of pre-existing property rights of Mexican citizens in the transferred territories, the latter of which the United States in a significant number of cases failed to honor. [ 4] [5] [6] The United States also agreed to take over $3.25 million ($68 million in 2006 dollars) in debts Mexico owed to American citizens. In Mexico, the war is sometimes referred to as the War of North American Invasion (La Intervención Norteamericana). Mexico had controlled the area in question for about 25 years since it had seceded from the Spanish Empire in 1821 in the Mexican War of Independence. The Spanish had conquered the area from the Native American tribes over the preceding three centuries. There were approximately 80,000 Mexicans in the areas of California, New Mexico, Arizona and Texas during this period and they made up about 20% of the population. [ 7]
The Treaty took its name from what is now the suburb of Mexico City where it was signed on 2 February 1848.