Mexico’s War of 1847 was fought for one main reason, for Texas. When Texas gained its independence in 1836, Mexico blames the United States for its loss. The land between the Sabine River and the Rio Grande was under dispute. The biggest problem was bringing slavery into this new land. Ulysses Grant stated “The southern rebellion was largely an outgrowth of the Mexican War”. The war was fought along 3 fronts, Monterrey, Buena Vista, and the beach south of Veracruz. The battle for Monterrey was a very costly struggle marked by bloody streets and a door-to-door struggle to secure the city. The Battle of Buena Vista was fought in a narrow pass between the mountain ranges south of the city of Saltillo. Most of Taylor’s men were volunteers who didn’t think they could win until Santa Anna withdrew his army in the safety of darkness. The third and final front required months of planning and carful coordination. General Scott led 9000 men on the beach in 5 hours without suffering a single casualty. After many close engagements, Scott occupied the Mexican capital in September 1847. After taking control of the Mexican capital the fighting came to an end. Mexico had several disadvantages going into the war. They had been independent only 25 years before the war started and had a long struggle to achieve social, economic, and political stability. The failure to establish a durable political arrangement was the main reason for being instable. The ill-assimilated Indians who inhabited the country found it difficult to have an organized political arrangement. They experimented with an empire, a federal republic, and various forms of centralized rule but none had lasted. The make it even worse the nations had very little industry, poor transportation, and almost no government revenue apart from import tariffs. During the war Americans generally supported the war. There were thousands of people who volunteered to fight in the war. Years after the Mexican war the Civil War began. Ulysses Grant believed that the Civil War was America’s punishment. Grant influenced much modern thought that it was “one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation”. In conclusion, the Mexican War may have been a very important war in history, but it also a forgotten war. If remembered at all, it is thought of wrongly as an unpopular war because of certain luminaries of the day.