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Show i Territory of Ufali Added lo the L'Jiiou at End of Mexi- . can War. , , , .c:-.. . ; ----"--"'' EMBRACED VIRTUALLY ALL WESTERN STATES CIiaiHilfeiicu Was (he Decisive Ratlle in (he Rider Strife. Sixt3r years ago today tho treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, between the United States and Mexico was signed, and Utah was added lo the Union. The cession included what is now a portion of Colorado. New Mexico, and Arizona, and all of Utah. Nevada and California. The shot which blurted tho Mexican war in earnest ami really cut out the new boundary line that separated Mexico Mexi-co from the United States was fired in IS'Mi upon one of the scouting parties par-ties of General Zachary Taylor, who had moved his forces from Corpus Christ i, Texas, to the Rio Grande, opposite op-posite the Mexican city of Matanioras. L'his was on April 21. War Is Declared. When the news reached Washington war was declared. Tho first actual battle bat-tle occurred on May S. Taylor had set out; to attack the fort opposite the Mexican c'ny. He met the Mexican forces under General Arista, at Palo Alia. That battle lasted from 2 o'clock in the afternoon until night. The final battle, on September Ut, 1S17, which led to the treaty, also ended at night, after a galling two days' fire under General Winfield Scott. Chapullcpcc, the blroughold which gave the key to the entrance of Mexico, fell with that battle, and tho men then fought their way almost to the doors of the Governor's palace, which Scott entered the following morning and, after af-ter planting the American flag in the square. was ready to listen to terms of capitulation and a treaty. Santa Ana, who had been in personal commnnil of the .Mexican troops, thoroughly thor-oughly routed, read the doom of tho city in the bombs of Generals Worth and Quitman and ficd in a coach to Guadalupo Hidalgo, where the peace treaty was finally negotiated. |