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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 and breech loading rifles which gave their guns a higher rate of fire than the Mexican muzzle loading muskets. A high 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 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, a technique pioneered by the US Army called Indirect Fire.