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This is a list of United States military units that participated in the Mexican–American War. The list includes regular U.S. Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Revenue Marine Service units and ships as well as the units of the militia that various states recruited for the war. The commanding officer of each unit or ship is identified when there ...
Alonzo W. Adams. John Adams (Confederate Army officer) Edmund Brooke Alexander. Peter H. Allabach. Eliza Allen. Harvey A. Allen. James Allen (Army engineer) Robert Allen (general) Reddick Allred.
The Mexican–American War was the first U.S. war that was covered by mass media, primarily the penny press, and was the first foreign war covered primarily by U.S. correspondents. [114] Press coverage in the United States was characterized by support for the war and widespread public interest and demand for coverage of the conflict.
Saint Patrick's Battalion. Reconstruction of the battalion's flag as described by John Riley. The Saint Patrick's Battalion (Spanish: Batallón de San Patricio), later reorganized as the Foreign Legion of Patricios, was a Mexican Army unit which fought against the United States in the Mexican–American War.
The Mormon Battalion was the only religious unit in United States military history in federal service, recruited solely from one religious body and having a religious title as the unit designation. [2] The volunteers served from July 1846 to July 1847 during the Mexican–American War of 1846–1848. [3]
W. William P. Wood. Categories: American military personnel of the Mexican–American War. United States Army personnel by war. 19th-century United States Army personnel.
Colonel John Coffee Hays. First Regiment of Texas Mounted Rifle Volunteers, unofficially known as Hays's Texas Rangers, was a United States Volunteer regiment raised in June 1846, with a core of Texas Rangers, for service in the Mexican–American War. The regiment distinguished itself at the Battle of Monterrey.
The siege of Fort Texas marked the beginning of active campaigning by the armies of the United States and Mexico during the Mexican–American War. The battle is sometimes called the siege of Fort Brown. [4] Fort Texas was located on the northern side of the Rio Grande opposite the Mexican town of Matamoros. At the time, the Rio Grande border ...