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Noun: Mexican War
  1. 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
    - Mexican-American War

Type of: war, warfare

Encyclopedia: Mexican War

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