Emory shaped the United States like few Americans before or ... to an invasion by Mexico to reclaim the territory that rejected it. The U.S. victory in the Mexican-American War that followed ...

The map labeled North America as Mexican America and already identified the Gulf of Mexico as such, 169 years before the United States was founded,” The New York Times reports. “Why don’t we call it ...

Worth, during the Mexican-American ... the Mexicans into war. When the Mexicans fired on American troops in April 25, 1846, Polk had the excuse he needed. He declared, "[Mexico] has invaded ...

Mexico has protested Google Maps' change of the Gulf of Mexico's name to the Gulf of America, calling the US directive ...