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- The Mexican–American War, also known in the United States as The Mexican War and in Mexico as la intervención norteamericana (the North American ...28 KB (4,268 words) - 16:30, 9 November 2022
- Mexican War of Independence (1810-1821), was an armed conflict between the people of Mexico and Spanish colonial authorities, which started on ...15 KB (2,102 words) - 16:30, 9 November 2022
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- The Battle of Buena Vista (February 23, 1847), also known as the Battle of Angostura, in February 1847 saw the U.S. Army use heavy artillery ...9 KB (1,403 words) - 03:51, 2 January 2022
- Cinco de Mayo in Latin America, Spanish for "Fifth of May") is an annual celebration held on May 5. The date is observed to commemorate ...18 KB (2,441 words) - 22:02, 10 December 2023
- Carlos Antonio de Padua Chávez y Ramírez (June 13, 1899 – August 2, 1978) was a Mexican composer, conductor, teacher, journalist, and the ...5 KB (726 words) - 15:24, 27 November 2023
- Octavio Paz Lozano (March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature ...11 KB (1,620 words) - 23:51, 17 November 2022
- Geronimo (Chiricahua, Goyaałé; “One Who Yawns”; often spelled Goyathlay in English) (June 16, 1829 – February 17, 1909) was a prominent ...9 KB (1,410 words) - 07:39, 24 January 2023
- Mexican War of Independence (1810-1821), was an armed conflict between the people of Mexico and Spanish colonial authorities, which started on ...15 KB (2,102 words) - 16:30, 9 November 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group [[Image:Yaqui indians.jpg|thumb|right|Yaqui people, c. 1910]] ...14 KB (2,202 words) - 10:14, 22 May 2023
- Cochise (A-da-tli-chi = "hardwood," also Cheis) (c. 1805 – June 9, 1874) was a chief (a nantan) of the Chokonen ("central" ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 22:17, 7 January 2024
- Winfield Scott (June 13, 1786 – May 29, 1866) was a United States Army general, diplomat, and presidential candidate. Known as "Old Fuss ...19 KB (2,810 words) - 11:00, 15 May 2023
- John Charles Frémont (January 21, 1813 – July 13, 1890), was an American military officer and explorer. Fremont mapped most of the Oregon ...16 KB (2,336 words) - 16:59, 5 April 2024
- The Battle of the Alamo was a nineteenth century battle between the Republic of Mexico and the rebel Texan forces during the latter's fight ...19 KB (3,079 words) - 23:51, 30 October 2023
- Baron Adolph Wilhelm August Friedrich von Steinwehr (September 25, 1822 – February 25, 1877) was a Prussian army officer who emigrated to the ...9 KB (1,379 words) - 06:10, 15 June 2023
- The Mexican–American War, also known in the United States as The Mexican War and in Mexico as la intervención norteamericana (the North American ...28 KB (4,268 words) - 16:30, 9 November 2022
- The Compromise of 1850 was a series of laws that attempted to resolve the territorial and slavery controversies arising from the Mexican-American ...12 KB (1,866 words) - 00:22, 8 January 2024
- David Crockett (David de Crocketagne, August 17, 1786 – March 6, 1836) was a nineteenth-century American folk hero usually referred to as Davy ...11 KB (1,717 words) - 08:40, 28 January 2024
- Ambrose Powell Hill (November 9, 1825 – April 2, 1865), was a Confederate general in the American Civil War. He gained early fame as the commander ...11 KB (1,694 words) - 06:51, 13 June 2023
- Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón (February 21, 1794 – June 21, 1876), also known simply as Santa Anna ...22 KB (3,432 words) - 05:42, 11 August 2023
- Benito Pablo Juárez García (March 21, 1806 – July 18, 1872) was a Zapotec Amerindian who served five terms México - Presidencia de la República ...17 KB (2,657 words) - 09:15, 27 September 2023
- Selena Quintanilla-Pérez (April 16, 1971 – March 31, 1995), best known simply as Selena, was an iconic Mexican American singer who has been ...16 KB (2,443 words) - 17:47, 25 January 2023
- José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori (September 15, 1830 – July 2, 1915) was a Mexican-American War volunteer, French Intervention hero, and ...17 KB (2,659 words) - 05:38, 30 November 2022
- Known as the Rio Grande in the United States and as the Río Bravo (and more formally as Río Bravo del Norte) in Mexico. The river flows generally ...17 KB (2,584 words) - 01:41, 15 December 2022
- Samuel Houston (March 2, 1793 – July 26, 1863) was a nineteenth century American statesman, politician, and soldier. The Virginia-born Houston ...18 KB (2,765 words) - 01:57, 23 December 2022
- The Oregon boundary dispute (often called the Oregon question) arose as a result of competing British and American claims to the Oregon Country ...14 KB (2,192 words) - 01:12, 18 November 2022
- Zachary Taylor (November 24, 1784 - July 9, 1850) was an American military leader and the twelfth president of the United States. Taylor had ...16 KB (2,480 words) - 10:32, 7 June 2023
- The Wilmot Proviso was introduced on August 8, 1846, in the House of Representatives as a rider on a $2 million appropriations bill intended ...17 KB (2,658 words) - 10:55, 15 May 2023
- Franklin Pierce (November 23, 1804 – October 8, 1869) was the 14th President of the United States, serving from 1853 to 1857. He was elected ...19 KB (2,905 words) - 05:14, 9 April 2024
- Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón de Rivera, better known as Frida Kahlo (July 6, 1907 to July 13, 1954), was a Mexican painter of the ...18 KB (2,754 words) - 11:00, 11 April 2024
- Lewis "Lew" Wallace (April 10, 1827 – February 15, 1905) was a self taught lawyer, governor, Union general in the American Civil ...15 KB (2,378 words) - 11:00, 7 March 2023
- Category:Image wanted Category:Media Professionals Category:Economists Category:Biography Barron, Clarence W. Clarence Walker Barron (July 2, ...12 KB (1,777 words) - 10:25, 19 December 2023
- category:Image wanted {{Infobox Non-profit | Non-profit_name = American Friends Service Committee | founded_date = 1917 | founder ...12 KB (1,779 words) - 03:35, 24 July 2023
- Cuauhtémoc (also known as Cuauhtemotzin or Guatimozin; c. 1502 – February 28, 1525) was the last Aztec ruler (Tlatoani) of Tenochtitlán and ...8 KB (1,234 words) - 19:34, 8 July 2016
- Lewis Cass (October 9, 1782 – June 17, 1866) was an American military officer and politician. He was the nominee of the Democratic Party for ...9 KB (1,272 words) - 22:19, 25 October 2022
- Juan Manuel Fangio (June 24, 1911 – July 17, 1995) was a race-car driver from Argentina, who dominated the first decade of Formula One racing ...9 KB (1,418 words) - 02:02, 8 September 2022
- The Baja California peninsula, (also Lower California peninsula) is a North American peninsula, politically a part of the nation of Mexico. Extending ...14 KB (2,128 words) - 05:48, 26 August 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Public [[Image:Pocahontas original.jpg|thumb|260px|Pocahontas, in England ...12 KB (1,786 words) - 01:13, 10 April 2021
- James Knox Polk (November 2, 1795 – June 15, 1849) was the eleventh President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1845, to March 3 ...25 KB (3,708 words) - 21:19, 20 March 2024
- The Day of the Dead (Spanish: Día de los Muertos) is a holiday celebrated in many parts of the world, which directs honor and reverence towards ...19 KB (2,926 words) - 08:42, 28 January 2024
- A cowboy is an animal herder, usually in charge of the horses and/or cattle, on cattle ranches, especially in the western United States and Canada ...23 KB (3,523 words) - 06:14, 11 January 2024
- Miguel Gregorio Antonio Ignacio Hidalgo y Costilla Gallaga Mondarte Villaseñor (May 8, 1753 – July 30, 1811), also known as Cura Hidalgo ...16 KB (2,562 words) - 17:46, 9 November 2022
- The Northwest Ordinance (formally An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States, North-West of the River Ohio, and also ...10 KB (1,533 words) - 06:38, 16 November 2022
- Yucatán is one of the 31 states of Mexico, located in the north of the Yucatán Peninsula. It is bound to the north by the Gulf of Mexico, to ...27 KB (4,045 words) - 21:35, 4 June 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics A poll tax, or head tax, is a tax of a uniform, fixed amount per individual (as opposed ...22 KB (3,597 words) - 08:38, 24 November 2022
- Johann August Suter (February 28 1803 – June 18 1880) was a Swiss pioneer of California known as a founder of California and for his association ...21 KB (3,406 words) - 07:56, 3 August 2022
- Big Bend National Park is a National Park located in Texas, USA. For more than 1,000 miles (1,600 km) the Rio Grande / Río Bravo forms the international ...17 KB (2,701 words) - 03:47, 1 October 2023
- Oregano is the common name for a perennial herbaceous plant, Origanum vulgare of the mint family (Lamiaceae), characterized by opposite, aromatic ...11 KB (1,590 words) - 01:11, 18 November 2022
- Richard Steven Valenzuela (May 13, 1941 – February 3, 1959), better known as Ritchie Valens, was a pioneer of rock and roll and, as a Mexican ...19 KB (3,053 words) - 01:42, 15 December 2022
- Axolotl (or ajolote) is the common name for the salamander Ambystoma mexicanum, which is the best-known of the Mexican neotenic mole salamanders ...13 KB (1,951 words) - 06:05, 10 January 2023
- Pierre Gustave Toutant de Beauregard (pronounced IPA: /'boʊ.ɹɪ.ˌgɑɹd/ ) (May 28, 1818 – February 20, 1893), was a Louisiana-born ...11 KB (1,598 words) - 06:06, 18 November 2022
- Sarah Winnemucca (1844-1891) was born Thocmentony, a Paiute name that means "Shell Flower." She was a peacemaker, teacher, interpreter ...10 KB (1,568 words) - 03:26, 23 December 2022
- Henry Clay (April 12, 1777 – June 29, 1852) was a leading American statesman and orator who represented Kentucky in both the House of Representatives ...23 KB (3,536 words) - 15:21, 25 January 2023
