USA has been the biggest villan I'm recent history, no other country has toppled so many democratic governments as the usians, mexico was just their first victim of American imperialism, and to this day they still carry a lot of the racist archetypes of mexicans to the American colective imagination.

yea ok grant

Anyone who studied a bit of history would know how full of garbage he was.

@@AR15andGODoffended by facts? Truth hurts sack up

You could also apply the quote from Secretary of State John Hay during the Spanish-American conflict. "A splendid little war."

Surprisingly enough, St. Patrick’s battalion is very much remembered in Mexico, it is even celebrated and commemorated on September 12 of every year.

"Unknown"? There's even a Hollywood movie about it. "One Man's Hero" starring Tom Berringer.

in mexico, he still pay homage to them. granted. not in the grand way they deserve. pretty low key, actually

The Irish are honored here in Mexico for their bravery and courage...I lived for many years in a town called San Patricio....every St Patrick's Day there is 2 weeks of celebration

I love history... I've been living in Mexico long time... and yes the Irish are honored here...they suffered like all brittish empire did and identify with Mexicans... Catholicism playing a part...i have a friend here in Mexico... he's a curator of a museum here... James Michener stayed at his home when writing his book "Mexico"....my friend is freckled and green eyed...sat me down and told stories how the Irish integrated...besides suffering horrible torture after chosing to switch sides... realizing the reality of the land grab plan of the US... other Irish slave/deck hands serving their brittish/ pirate masters...those who could swim...ended up on the shores and married...had kids...i just arrived to Melaque San Patricio...my old stomping grounds... cheers from Mexico

Very well said. Just from experience, lots of people don't understand how big the US and Mexico really are.

Yes, I concur on using more maps.

Might just be I'm a Virginian like Lee, but, if not for him allying with his home state, he'd be considered(and is, by historians who understand him) one of the greatest Officers in US history. Three brevets and the rank of Colonel by the end of the Mexican-American war, when he had only been in the Engineers Corp until then and been out of West Point for...18 years? or 16?

Perhaps Lee learned victory against long odd fron Scott in that campaign.

@@tudyk21 that is a possibility, it could have also been from learning the tactics of the napoleonic wars too. Many times Napoleon was outnumbered and had to use unconventional tactics to win. Maybe a bit of both??

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That is so very insightful oh, Sir, mister historian.

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I wouldn't consider the RJW "lesser known"

@@mecha7419 unfortunately I definitely would. When I was doing my practicum for secondary teaching in KY the state curriculum just completely glanced over the conflict. Resoundingly from students I’ve talked to in surrounding states that’s been their experience as well. History nuts might understand it’s greater historical implications but the general public I don’t think does.

The Russo Japanese war is defenitly as well know as the Franco Prussian war.

It was

That'd be great, just so long as the voyage of the Russian 2nd Pacific Squadron is covered.

We'll believe anything if it means we can expand our imperial reach. -Murican

Remember the statistic: the US has NOT been at war for 16 years of its inglorious history. Another interesting statistic: at the last count the second-biggest spenders on Armamnets is China, 330 Billion. NUmber one is the USA, 3 plus trillion.

LMAO, my favourite part of the video.

@@dieterbarkhoff1328 imagine thinking that stat means anything without context. Another youtube pseudo intellectual.

@@freeminded7 Oh, I peg your bardon: of course it isn't significant, after all, the USA is the Land of the Free!!!! ( Free to bomb the shit out of anyone its oligarchs likes. Of course being at war for every moment of your life except 16 is no sign of anything because, after all, ----I know, the US was constantly being ATTACKED. Wow, I'm afraid you are the INTELLECTUAL, not me, I am simply numerate and able to assess that 16 out of 268 is a piss. poor average. )

The president still has 2

We technically haven declared war since WWII. Everything since then had been a "police action"

@@majobyet, we’re fighting a proxy war against nuclear armed Russia😂

Now Mexicans R illegals in their own Land 😢😮😢

+1 on this

What was the greatest Mexican victory?

@@bass779 Hello. There are not so many of them. Traditionally the biggest Mexican victory is considered the Battle of Buena Vista. Both armies retreated the battlefield, but the American advance in the north part of Mexico stopped. Personally I believe the greatest mexican are: First Battle of Tabasco (250 mexican soldiers stopped the american navy's attempt to capture cities along the Tabasco coast with 7 ships and 700 landing force), First Battle of Mora New Mexico (mexican militia and native american retarded american control of New Mexico), and Battle of Mulegé (ina baja california, after mexico city was taken and mexican government has surrendered, Mexican militia stopped an american Attack in Baja california). Regards.

It wasn't unjust, it was unfathomably based. Every major country in the world has fought wars to expand, we are absolutely allowed to do the same.

That was indeed a major challege

You were doing well until the “world has ever seen” part.

@@anon3526 i included the word "among". I didn't say they were "the" best. I stand by what i said 100%.

@K3ll Tv I mean the U.S.-Comanche wars. I know the Comanches were fighting the Apache, Spanish, and Mexicans before the Americans arrived. I should have been more specific.

@K3ll Tv the Comanches fought almost everyone they came into contact with. The only exceptions were the Kiowa and maybe a couple other minor tribes.

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Never heard of the Paraguayan War. Tell me more.

@@FlamingBasketballClub ​ spoiler alert: Most of the male population dies, a province gets named after Rutherford B. Hayes, and a lot of intermixing over decades

To be honest, I found the Jan and Dean song about the war a bit distasteful.

Or the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars perhaps?

It is the same war.

@@techfixr2012 that's part of the debate. The French and English colonies in North America waged war for two years before England formally declared war on France and expanded the war into Europe. In North America, the French and Indian War is commonly considered a separate conflict.

Dude it's the same war. In fact the first true world war...ijs

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With the industrial revolution changing everything from manufacturing to farming, if the conflict could have been staved off for another 20 years -- or perhaps even 10 -- perhaps the issue would have become moot. Or perhaps not. We'll never know but it's an interesting question.

From what I’ve read, one side wanted to keep the “1 slave state, 1 free state” balance that the US had going on but the other side pointed out that all of those former Mexican states had abolished slavery years before the war and they thought changing them into slave states was unconstitutional since they already were non slave states, so the 1 for 1 balance was broken.

@@ericktellez7632 I hadn't heard that but it sounds plausible.

By the Polk era, polarization over slavery had gotten bad enough that things were moving from a fierce debate to political hardball to each side trying to set up conditions so that when/if things turned violent, their side would have a military advantage. Andrew Jackson's controversial administration tore apart the Democratic Republican party: Jackson's faction controlled the Democratic Party and those who left the party out of opposition to the Jacksonians became the Whigs. The Democrats were larger but still deeply divided by infighting lingering from Jackson's presidency. Polk was a pro-slavery Democrat, a protege of Jackson and his ruthless expansionism. Polk went into his party convention as an also-ran aiming for the vice presidential nomination, but his party was so deadlocked that Polk emerged as the compromise (the term "dark horse candidate," still used today, originated with Polk). His Whig opponent was Henry Clay, a DC insider who was a very moderate abolitionist but also still a unrepentant slaveowner himself, a symptom of internal chaos within that party also, divisions which eventually lead to the Whigs falling apart altogether a few years later. In the next election, Polk honored his pledge not to run for re-election, and this time it was the Democrats who fell into chaos. After a three way fight between Henry Clay, Winfield Scott*, and Zachary Taylor*, Taylor won the nomination, then the general election, and then died suddenly. Those kinds of contradictions lead to the Whig party falling apart entirely a few years after Polk left office, while the southern democrats became increasingly obsessed with bailing out of the United States altogether via secession, which was already under discussion. Abolitionists, mostly whigs, then created the Republican party as a firmly anti-slavery party. The first republican candidate was Charles Fremont*, who lost, and then Abraham Lincoln, who won. Democrats considered the very election of Lincoln and his anti-slavery ideas so deplorable that they vowed to resist him by any means; Lincoln taking office was the immediate _casus belli_ for secession and he was plagued by putative "allies," fellow Republicans who were attempting to undermine him "to protect him from himself" and thereby making things worse. So I think the Mexican American War didn't lead to or even speed up the Civil War. Instead, I think that the Mexican American war was caused, at least in part, by attempts to defuse, distract from, or prepare for the civil war that people were starting to think was inevitable. *Mentioned in the video as having taken part in the war.

Yes the southern slave owners were pushing for an invasion of Mexico while northerners were against it

He totally left out the alamo!

The Spanish American War is way too hyped. Spain was defeated by latin guerrillas in the early XIX century all over the continent. The only important thing about it is that it granted the US nice positions in the Pacific.

The Mexican American War defined American imperialism. The US hasn’t stopped since then.

​@ellaluna5514 - assume your premise is true. This is colonialism, which is always and everywhere bad. The people who lived in what is today El Paso remained part of Mexico (or pick your own city). Given today's standards of living and productivity and government corruption/inability to control the country (drug cartels). If this war were never fought and Mexico retained control of these lands, who is better off?

@@thirdcoast2995 The drug cartels get their guns from the US with most of their customers in the US. Mexico has strong gun controls and now abortions are legal at the national level. Hmmm 🤔!

@@ellaluna5514this.

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@@sandybarnes887 Stupid autofill

@@nicholaspalmer892 yeah, I hate predictive text and autofill too.

I'll have to check that out never heard of that before you know any good documentaries or shows on the subject?

@@rc59191 check out Louis Riel

this is extremely a extremely stupid comment. a "clear" summary hahaha

The Mexican battle flag taken from the ramparts of Chapultepec by US Marines hung in ceremony at HQMC from the 1840s til Harry S Truman ''returned'' the flag to a Mexican representative [possibly when Miguel Aleman-Valdes visited DC in 1947] .

Lol. Marines. Brainwashed retards. Hoowah!

@@HootOwl513 any idea where it can be found and seen now?

@@brandonhallam51 No Sir. One might suppose it's in the possession of the Mexican State. Whether they retired it or put the flag on display at Chapultepec Castle or somewhere else in Ciudad de Mexico is anybody's guess.

I watch this and I say Mexico doesn’t have a Border problem if California and Texas are apart of Mexico. That entire southern border brings in so much money. California literally has the gdp of Russia you gotta pause and think about that it’s absolutely mind blowing🤯 And to think all of that land was literally taken mafia style.. Sign the deal take the money or else cannons and soldiers will be sent. Nobody talks that very real factor.

Crown heights?

What a way to go 😭

Those who live by the sword, die by the sword.

Napoleon had done so 50 years prior and the Swedes another 50 years before that.

@@donovanburkhardto add to it, this technique was developed and perfected by the Central Asians in the 14th century. From the Seljuk Turks to the Mughals, cannon mounted on horseback or camel often won them astonishing victories.

That is so fascinating. I read about the flying artillery concept in a book about the civil war. The US army really pioneered a lot of great military tactics

I don't think you should feel bad for a war over a 100 years ago. Yes as a Mexican I get a little sad seeing all those territories that the country "lost", but in reality Mexico never had controll over them, most of those lands belonged to native people, that Mexican elite treated them like shit. Still, we need to know these events, to better understand how we can avoid another conflict. We need to study atrocities to know how to prevent them.

venezuela and mexico have very different history. we are joined by the spanish empire. and we have a shared history and world viewe because of it. but thecourse of history is very different. my home town of veracruz has the official distinction of being hailed as 5 times heroic. becasue 5 times invasions have entered the country through it. twice by americans. it was also the place of the last stand of the last spaniards. even the empire had already left, and these ppl refued to acknowledge our independence

Mexico has a long and standing tradition of killing heroes. Outside looking in, it's impressive how chaotic yet functional the country is.

Wow cool your unit goes back that far

That’s cool. Blood and steel sounds like a third reich motto

Grant is hilarious considering that the entire world thought that Mexico was far stronger than the US at that time, since the US had a standing army of 5,000 men.

​@@stephenjenkins7971That Is a myth, the british and the french knew México would not be able to resist an American invasion and advised México to use independent Texas as a Buffer against American expansionism.

As a New Yorker who grew up in NYC, you are right. There was a native born New Yorker named Bill the Butcher whose father was a veteran of the War of 1812. He fought in knife fights with Irish immigrants and Irish sailors and was the leader of the Nativists street gang Their wars with Irish and other ethnic groups lasted from 1846 til 1855 when he was killed in a knife fight in a bar by an Irishman who was a member of the British cavalry and was well trained in saber and knife fights . This was memorized by the movie Gangs of New York made by a famous movie director who was born also in NYC whose name I presently can't remember. The Mexican American War was also the first war to be photographed. Now I remember the name! Martin Scorsese!

We don't comprehend today how strong anti-Catholic feelings were for much of the nations history. Even with Irish and German immigrants making up the majority of the regular army, Catholics were denied promotions, punished more harshly than protestant soldiers, and often denied access to priests or religious services.

@@mickaleneduczech8373 The 1999 Tom Berenger film, "One Man's Hero'' illustrates this pretty well. Great flick.

@@luislaplume8261 Yes, I saw Scorsese's 2002 ''Gangs of New York.'' Daniel Day-Lewis did a fearsome job playing Bill the Butcher. Ironically, Day-Lewis is an Irish citizen, Scorsese is a native New Yorker, Cameron Diaz [Jenny] is Cuban/German-American and DiCaprio is 2 quarters German. America, the Melting Pot.

Which is ironic, because despite being part of the Commonwealth, Canadian Courts had thrown out any laws or ordinances that would allow slavery by the beginning of the 18th century, and was ultimately the end destination for many routes of the Underground Railroad. Also when the Confederates reached out to us diplomatically, we told them to take a hike.

meanwhile, in mexico, it is still remembered, bitterly.

@@jakepistolero no they don't

@@thefutureisnowoldman7653 yes, it is. we are not hiung up on it, but it is still remembered

@@jakepistolero Where in mexico are you from Becuase when they taught me the war they put all the Blame on Santana

@@thefutureisnowoldman7653 his incomoetence and huvris were very important, yes. But, as russia has taught america, the agressor us always at fault Veracruz

Mexican American here definitely knew about this war and am so thankful America expanded freedom and empowerment to thousands of more miles and millions of more people

@Kevin Young The war wasn't about expanding freedom and empowerment, it was about expanding the U.S. borders.

@@royroland3884 no but two colonial powers fought and that was the end result.

@@kevinyoung947 America? You mean United States? Also I doubt the United States expanded freedom and empowerment since slavery was still a thing.

@@kevinyoung947 "Freedom" Yeah let's just forget how America still had slavery

The correct term would be xenophobia

Unyet after gettysburg the Irish brigade were heroes, North and South Irish fought each other at Fredericksburg.......just saying 🙄

It wierd how you ignored how Catholicism fit into the event.

@@badluck5647 how is it weird ? O_o

@@archetypealch3my290 It is a pretty big element, so it odd to not mention it. It like like talking about the American Civil War and not bringing up slavery.

Wow, that's inside history stuff, thanks. I'm in California, streets, town, cities, parks, are named after many from the war, but now being challenged and changed.

@@nuqwestr why are they challenged?

He’s an Englishman; transitioning from an “a” to a consonant almost always includes the “r” transition. He’s not necessarily pronouncing it wrong, merely part of how his accent works. Look up “Received Pronunciation” and it’ll explain this unique phenomena in English accents. It’s quite fascinating.

@@XX2Media not quite fascinating at all

I'm certain that's coming up

we cnsider that an a**hole. sorry

Amazing work? murdering thousands of civilians? what good work is this? you're not crazy, are you?

Spoiler alert: it was about slavery

I feel like someone is reinventing Marxism where *every* moment of history is defined as racial struggle instead of class struggle. You are giving too much emphasis to slavery. Unlike the rest of the South, the settled part of Texas wasn't rich in land that was good for farming cotton, so slavery wasn't as vital to them. Most Texans were just farmers who were worried about the Mexican dictatorship much like the two other breakaway Mexican republics at the time.

@@badluck5647 Did… did you just imply slavery wasn’t vital for the south’s economy. Propaganda is a hell of a drug.

That's a good one.

Also: John Slidell’s name is pronounced SLY-dell

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If you are American, you benefit from all the colonization and invasions. Same if you are british.