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1847
Battle of Buena Vista begins
During the Mexican-American War, Mexican General Santa Anna
surrounds the outnumbered forces of U.S. General Zachary Taylor
at the Angostura Pass in Mexico and demands an immediate
surrender. Taylor refused, allegedly replying, "Tell him to go to
hell," and early the next morning Santa Anna dispatched some
15,000 troops to move against the 5,000 Americans. The superior
U.S. artillery was able to halt one of the two advancing Mexican
divisions, while Jefferson Davis' Mississippi riflemen led the
defense of the extreme left flank against the other Mexican
advance. By five o'clock in the afternoon, the Mexicans begin to
withdraw.
The Mexican-American War began with a dispute over the U.S.
government's 1845 annexation of Texas. In January 1846, President
James K. Polk, a strong advocate of westward expansion, ordered
General Taylor to occupy disputed territory between the Nueces
and Rio Grande rivers. Mexican troops attacked Taylor's forces,
and in May 1846 Congress approved a declaration of war against
Mexico.
At Buena Vista in February 1847, and at Monterrey in September,
Taylor proved a brilliant military commander, earning the
nickname "Old Rough and Ready" while emerging from the war a
national hero. He won the Whig presidential nomination in 1848
and defeated the Democratic candidate, Lewis Cass, in November.
The other hero of the Battle of Buena Vista, Jefferson Davis,
became secretary of war under President Franklin Pierce in 1853
and president of the Confederate States of America in 1861.
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