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The Empire of the Aztecs, also known as the Empire of Mexico, which has Mexico City as its capital even today, from the time it was founded by Itzcoatl in 1427 up to the presidency of Antonio López de Santa Anna from 1833-1855, pursued a policy of aggressive military expansion until the time of President Santa Anna who failed in his attempted invasion of Texas in 1836 and whose armies lost the Mexican American War from 1846-1848. Dissatisfied with his leadership due to his failures, a group of Liberals including Juan Alvarez, Benito Juárez, and Ignacio Comonfort overthrew López de Santa Anna under the Plan of Ayutla, which called for his removal from office. He went into exile in 1855.
The American forces had an overwhelming advantage against the Mexicans because they had revolvers, invented by Samuel Colt in 1836, and breech loading percussion cap rifles which gave their guns a higher rate of fire than the Mexican muzzle loading flintlock muskets. A higher rate of fire from the American guns made it possible for the US soldiers to scatter their forces and pick off the Mexican soldiers who were clustered in formation because they were using obsolete guns and tactics.
The US Army also had the AT pepperbox made by Allen and Thurber which is a variant of the revolver that has a set of revolving barrels, instead of a cylinder with slots for ammunition, and the ring lever action repeater, invented by Samuel Colt in 1837, that was a rifle version of the revolver that used a ring mechanism under the gun and near the trigger that loaded the next round into the firing chamber and cocked the hammer when it was pushed downwards.
The US Army also had breech loading cannons which gave the cannons a higher rate of fire.
The US Army also had impact fuses on their artillery shells which enabled the shell to explode as it hit the target unlike the shells of the Mexicans which still needed to use a wick and could explode prematurely if it was too short.
The US Army had troop and supply wagons and steam trains to rapidly transport fresh troops and supplies to the battlefield on the national trailways and railways that linked all of the US cities.
The US Army also used Field Telegraphs, specifically in the Mexican-American War because it had already been invented by Samuel Morse in 1839, which made it easier to coordinate the efforts of their soldiers because they could rapidly send messages from one battalion to another.
Lastly, the US Army had aircraft in the form of hydrogen filled observation balloons which enabled them to easily spot the Mexican forces, using observers in the gondolas equipped with telescopes, and shoot them down from beyond the horizon with their cannons, a technique pioneered by the US Army called Indirect Fire. The observers on the balloons also used field telegraphs which had wires placed close to the tethers to relay messages to the ground station beneath which would send the information on the enemy's position to distant battalions of soldiers using their own field telegraphs.
In the naval battles that the Mexicans and Americans fought off the coasts of Texas and California, the US Navy used steam powered ironclad battleships such as the USS Fulton which was introduced in 1837 and is the 1st battleship of this design, though the 1st steam powered warship was the USS Demologos, which was made of wood rather than iron, and was invented by Robert Fulton in 1815.
Below is an image of the USS Demologos, the world's 1st steam powered warship:
Below is a photo of the USS Fulton, the world's 1st steam powered ironclad battleship:
Below is a photo of the USS Fulton, the world's 1st steam powered ironclad battleship:
