User:Asiaticus/Mexico City Campaign

Mexico City Campaign of the Mexican American War

Preparations

Landing and Siege of Vera Cruz

• Siege of Vera Cruz

March on Mexico City

• Battle of Cerro Gordo

Battles around Mexico City

• Battle of Contreras
• Battle of Churubusco
• Battle for Mexico City
  • Molino del Rey
  • Chapultepec
  • Battle for the Belén and San Cosme Gates

References

• Johnson, Timothy D., A Gallant Little Army: The Mexico City Campaign, University of Kansas, Laurence, (2007), ISBN 978-0-7006-1541-4
• Rives, George Lockhart, The United States and Mexico, 1821-1848: a history of the relations between the two countries from the independence of Mexico to the close of the war with the United States, Volume 2, C. Scribner's Sons, New York, 1913.full text online
• Smith, Justin Harvey. The War with Mexico, Vol 1. 2 vol (1919). full text online.
• Smith, Justin Harvey. The War with Mexico, Vol 2. 2 vol (1919). Pulitzer Prize winner. full text online.