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The Cession of Mexican Provinees to Napoleon--A Copy of the Deed of Cession Said to Have Been Received by the French Commander at Mazatian. Share full article. April 13, 1865.
The boundaries entailed almost all of the newly acquired Mexican Cession. Dr. Jeff Nichols, Westminster College history professor, is photographed in his office in Salt Lake City on April 26.
THE FRENCH-MEXICAN CESSION. Share full article. Feb. 20, 1865. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from February 20, 1865, Page 8 Buy Reprints.
If it hadn’t been for the Mexican Cession of 1848, much of the southwestern United States—California, Arizona, New Mexico, and parts of Utah, Nevada, and Colorado—would still belong to Mexico.
SWEETWATER COUNTY-- A remote, seldom-visited historical site in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, is the subject of a new article at WyoHistory.org. - “The Tri-Territory Site: Outpost of Invisible ...