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  2. Battle of Tampico (1829) - Wikipedia

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    The battle at Tampico was the last major confrontation between the Mexican Republic and the Spanish Empire, with future Spanish invasion plans being aborted by the political situation in Spain. [2] The victory of his army at Tampico made Santa Anna a popular hero in Mexico, a status that would influence his political career.

  3. Spanish attempts to reconquer Mexico - Wikipedia

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    Despite the victory of Mexico over the last Spanish bastion in Ulúa, Spain refused to recognize the Treaty of Córdoba and hence the independence of Mexico. The Mexican government, led by Guadalupe Victoria , came to the conclusion that Spain, by its refusal to recognize the treaties, still posed a threat, and could use Cuba as a platform to ...

  4. Mexican War of Independence - Wikipedia

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    Spanish attempts to re-establish control over Mexico culminated in the 1829 Battle of Tampico, during which a Spanish invasion force was surrounded in Tampico and forced to surrender. [ 67 ] On 28 December 1836, Spain recognized the independence of Mexico under the Santa María–Calatrava Treaty , signed in Madrid by the Mexican Commissioner ...

  5. List of wars involving Mexico - Wikipedia

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    Americans leave the city after hearing war did not break out; Mier Expedition (1842–1843) Mexico Texas: Victory. Texan soldiers were forced to surrender; Texan raids on New Mexico (1843) Mexico Texas: Victory. Mexico retains control over New Mexico; Mexican–American War (1846–1848) Mexico United States California Texas: Defeat

  6. List of conflicts in Mexico - Wikipedia

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    An orthographic projection map detailing the present-day location and territorial extent of Mexico in North America.. This is a list of conflicts in Mexico arranged chronologically starting from the Pre-Columbian era (Lithic, Archaic, Formative, Classic, and Post-Classic periods/stages of North America; c. 18000 BCE – c. 1521 CE) up to the colonial and postcolonial periods (c. 1521 CE ...

  7. Second French intervention in Mexico - Wikipedia

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    The second French intervention in Mexico (Spanish: segunda intervención francesa en México), also known as the Second Franco-Mexican War (1861–1867), [12] was a military invasion of the Republic of Mexico by the French Empire of Napoleon III, purportedly to force the collection of Mexican debts in conjunction with Great Britain and Spain.

  8. Military history of Mexico - Wikipedia

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    After the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire in the early sixteenth century, the Spanish crown did not establish on a standing military, but the crown responded to the external threat of a British invasion by creating a standing military for the first time following the Seven Years' War (1756–63). The regular army units and militias had a ...

  9. List of wars involving Spain - Wikipedia

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    Roman Victory and invasion repelled Roman Civil War (406–411) and Gothic War (408–416) ... End of civil wars until Spanish conquest of Navarra.