Tyler, Polk, and War with Mexico

signs 4/12 Treaty of Annexation, assume $10m debt
Clay's 4/27 Raleigh letter opposed treaty "annexation & war with Mexico are identical"
S. Whigs in Senate defeat treaty 6/8
seeks to play on French interest in Texas ag. Brit
sends King dispatch 8/12 to minister in France
- blame Brit for abol slavery in West Indies
- aids in fall of Guizot, Louis Philippe
- released to public 12/3
Tyler speech 12/3 seeks joint resolution to annex

Texas annexed by joint resolution 3/01
Mexico breaks diplomatic relations 3/28
Buchanan sends Gillespie to Larkin in Calif 4/01
- Larkin reports Brit consul at Monterrey 7/10
- Larkin made confidential agent of U.S. 10/17
- Gillespie seeks aid of Fremont in Dec.
Polk orders Taylor to defend Texas 6/15 "on or near the Rio Grande"
Taylor with 3500 to south Nueces River 7/31
Polk order Comm. John Sloat to California
Polk sends John Slidell to Mexico City 11/07
- settle claims, Texas boundary,
- buy Calif. and N.Mex. for $30m.
Paredes replaces Herrera in Mexico
- no more negotiation with Slidell
- reasserts Sabine River border
- Santa Anna exiled to Cuba

Jan. 13 - Marcy orders Taylor from Nueces to Rio Grande
Mar. 15 - Taylor builds Fort Texas north of Matamoros
Apr. 24 - Arista orders Torrejon with 1600 north of the river
Apr. 25 - Torrejon ambushes Col. Seth Thornton
- 11 Americans killed at Rancho de Carricitos
May 2 - Ampudia attacks Ft. Texas; kills Maj. Jacob Brown
May 8 - Battle of Palo Alto
- won by artillery of Maj. Sam Ringgold
May 9 - Battle of Resaca de Palma
May 11 - U.S. declares war
June 30 - Kearny and 300 form 2nd Army of the West
- leave Leavenworth on 1600 mi. march to Calif.
July 28 - Stockton replaces Sloat; issues proclamation
July 29 - Fremont and USS Cyane seize San Diego
Aug. 8 - David Wilmot Proviso; Polk bribes Santa Anna
Aug. 13 - Stockton seizes Los Angeles
Aug. 18 - Kearny captures Santa Fe
Sep. 21 - Battle of Monterey
- Taylor allows Ampudia to withdraw
- Polk decides to form 3rd army under Scott
Oct. 31 - Stockton retakes San Diego; builds Ft. Stockton
Dec. 6 - Battle of San Pasqual
- Kearny loses 18 vs. Pico's Californios
- Kit Carson gets help from San Diego

Feb. 22 - Battle of Buena Vista
- Taylor sets trap for Santa Anna
Mar. 9 - Winfield Scott lands at Veracruz with 10000
Apr. 15 - Nicholas Trist gets instructions
- to buy territories for $30m
Apr. 18 - Battle of Cerro Gordo
- Robert E. Lee finds pathway
August Armistice at Mexico City
- Trist negotiates with Santa Anna
Aug. 20 - Battle of Churubusco
- Scott wins bridge into the city
Sep. 8 - Battle of Molino del Rey
- 54 deserters of St. Patrick Brigade hung
Sep. 12 - Battle of Chapultepec
- Los Ninos military cadets fight
Sep. 14 - Scott captures Citadel and Palace
- the "Halls of Montezuma"
Nov. 16 - Trist receives recall
- but negotiates with Anaya
Dec. 7 - Polk demands all Calif. & N. Mex.
Dec. 22 - Lincoln's Spot Resolution
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo signed Feb. 2, 1848, and summary of important phrases