Picture Information. A conflict that occurred as the result of Mexican resentment over the US annexation of Texas and a border dispute, the Mexican-American War represents the only major military dispute between the two nations. Venustiano Carranza had assumed control over the Mexican government in the spring and some of his followers drafted what was called the Plan of San Diego which called for a race war inside the United States and a … The leading player of Mexico’s civil war was Venustiano Carranza, who wanted to be recognized as president of Mexico. The war was fought primarily in northeastern and central Mexico and resulted in a decisive American victory. MEXICAN RAIDERS - MEXICAN BORDER WAR POSTCARD - KAVANAUGH'S WAR POSTALS. The Pancho Villa Expedition—now known officially in the United States as the Mexican Expedition, but originally referred to as the "Punitive Expedition, U.S. Army" —was an unsuccessful military operation conducted by the United States Army against the paramilitary forces of Mexican revolutionary Francisco "Pancho" Villa from March 14, 1916, to February 7, 1917, during the Mexican Revolution of 1910–1920. The “Bandit Wars”—a series of Mexican raids on U.S. border towns like Brownsville and Laredo between 1910 and 1919—grew out of the chaos caused by the Mexican Revolution. The Mexican-American War was a conflict between the United States and Mexico, fought from April 1846 to February 1848.Won by the Americans and damned by its contemporary critics as expansionist, it resulted in the U.S. gaining more than 500,000 square miles (1,300,000 square km) of Mexican territory extending westward from the Rio Grande to the Pacific Ocean. A relatively recent development is what has become the war on the Mexican border against Latinos, taken to grotesque extremes under US President Donald Trump. Reagan militarises border. Opens image gallery. SOLDIERS ON BORDER KAVANAUGH'S WAR POSTALS MEXICAN MILITARY POSTCARD (c. 1910) $9.95 + $2.00 shipping . $9.99 + $1.99 shipping . By 1915 the Border Wars took an interesting twist. Image not available.