noun
after disputes over Texas lands that were settled by Mexicans the United States declared war on Mexico in 1846 and by treaty in 1848 took Texas and California and Arizona and New Mexico and Nevada and Utah and part of Colorado and paid Mexico $15,000,000
• Part Meronyms: ↑Buena Vista, ↑Chapultepec
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the war between the U.S. and Mexico, 1846-48.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.