Victory in theMexican-Americanwar in the late 1840s led to the first big influx of Mexicans to the United States.
19世纪40年代晚期,美国打败墨西哥,促使大批墨西哥人涌入美国。这在美国历史上是首次。
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An infantryman on the Unionist side in theAmerican civil war (1861-65) was, on his reckoning, five times as good at hitting his foe as his Mexican, British or Continental European counterpart.