Ammon News - Tensions between Mexico and the United States—stemming from the U.S. annexation of Texas (1845)—led the U.S. Congress on this day in 1846 to approve overwhelmingly a declaration of war ...

In 1835-36, Texas rose in revolt against Mexico, fighting under West Florida’s lone star flag and voluntarily submitting to U.S. annexation in 1845. (The five-point star had emerged as a symbol ...

[5] The question of formal and sanctioned western expansion became acute with the U.S. annexation of the Republic of Texas and its contested territorial claims in December of 1845. While Texas ...

The Colorado Springs council on Tuesday voted 6-3 to send the question regarding the annexation of the Karman Line development to a special municipal election on June 17. The council also could ...

GENEVA, March 18 (Reuters) - Israel has expanded and consolidated settlements in the occupied West Bank as part of the steady integration of these territories into the State of Israel, in breach ...

The fear came in waves after the U.S. annexation of Texas in 1845 and then the 1848 Mexican-American War. The end of the U.S. Civil War in 1865 reignited those fears. The following year ...

In his inaugural speech of March 4, 1845, from the East Portico of the United States Capitol building, Polk left no doubt about his position on westward expansion, in general, and Texas annexation, in ...

A major step in this expansion is the annexation of Goodland, a 1,500-acre community located south of Highway 287, just west of Midlothian. While details of the annexation agreement have not yet ...