The 1846-48 conquest of about half of Mexico by the US had a significant impact in both countries. Documents here reveal conditions, thinking, events, and consequences regarding the settlement and independence of Texas; the annexation of Texas and the road to war; scenes of war 1846-47; the politics of war; legacies of war; and literature, culture, and memory. Among the texts are Antonio López de Santa Anna's 1836 proclamation on the fall of the Alamo, Robert Walker's argument for re-annexing Texas in 1844, Ulysses S. Grant remembers the Battle of Palo Alto in 1886, a Mexican officer on the difficulties of the Mexican army in July-August 1846, US and Mexican accounts of the 1847 fall and occupation of Mexico City, Frederick Dougless on the war in June 1849, the Mexican cession and the slavery question, the Navajo long walk of 1863, The Angels of Buena Vista" by John Greenleaf Whittier, and Legends of Mexico (1848) by Thomas Bang Thorpe. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)