1848: The Mexican-American War (also known as the Mexican War) formally ends with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. How did fighting during the Mexican-American War give the American Civil War's generals fighting experience? Find out on HistoryNet.com.
This lithograph by American printmaker Nathaniel Currier depicts the landing of the American forces under General Scott at Vera Cruz, on March 9, 1847, during the Mexican War.
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Also in history on this date:
880: Louis III, king of West Francia, was defeated at the Battle of Lüneburg Heath, Saxony, by what Anglo-Saxon chroniclers called the Great Heathen Army -- a coalition of Danes, Norwegians and Swedes led by the three sons of Ragnar Lodbrok.
1943: The last German pockets of resistance around Stalingrad surrender to Soviet forces, bringing the Battle of Stalingrad to an official end.
1989: The last Soviet column left Kabul, ending the Soviet Union's ill-starred war in Afghanistan.
