may 13, 1846 - Congress Declaired war
Description:
No Official deceleration came from Mexico. There is a ill-prepared Mexico VS a emerging power that looks to expand more and more.Mexico was weaker but the us still did not want to look like a bully. Ulysses S. Grant whom opposed the war but served as a lieutenant in Taylor's army claims, " The main goal of the US army advance from the Nueces River to the Neo Grande was to provoke the outbreak of war without attacking first to debilitate any political opposition to the war."
Added to timeline:
Date:
may 13, 1846
Now
~ 179 years ago