The Battle of the Alamo in 1836 resulted in victory by Mexico, but was soon followed by independence for Texas.

A peace treaty ended the Mexican–American War in February 1848 and officially left California as new American territory.

After the United States government celebrated the capture of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela, President Donald Trump issued ...

Nearly eight weeks after the fall of the Alamo on March 6, 1836, in San Antonio, prospects for victory in the struggle for Texas independence from Mexico ...

May 1703. It had been four years since the Peace of Karlowitz ended the Great Turkish War. The Ottoman Empire yielded the ...

Today, our Nation remembers one of the greatest American tales of might and one of the grandest displays of American resolve in the history of our ...

Captain Charles T. Boyd knew his orders. General John J. Pershing had told him to avoid a fight. But on June 21, 1916, ...

After the conflict, Pico lived at the San Fernando Mission and began extracting asphaltum from an area east of present-day ...

In 1823, America was a nation whose military was inferior to any of the major (or even minor) European powers and that ...

After Grant was voted in to succeed Johnson, he appointed Longstreet as the surveyor of customs for New Orleans. Governor ...

MEXICO CITY — A Roman Catholic cathedral in the Mexico-Texas border state of Nuevo Leon was the backdrop recently for the drug cartels' latest salvo in a drug war that is looking more like a ...