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The Seventh Star of the Confederacy: Texas During the Civil War, University of North Texas Press, 2011; Townsend, Stephen A., The Yankee Invasion of Texas, Texas A&M University Press, 2006; Barnes, J.D. Campaigns of the 20th Iowa Infantry with Personal Reminiscences of the War.Iowa City, Iowa: Camp Pope Publishing, 2016, 87-89. Shorey, Henry ...
In 1845, the Republic of Texas was annexed to the United States of America, becoming the 28th U.S. state.Border disputes between the new state and Mexico, which had never recognized Texas independence and still considered the area a renegade Mexican state, led to the Mexican–American War (1846–1848).
In this alternate history, it is the year 2000, and the United States has annexed Mexico and the states of Central America. Invasion: America is a 2–4 player corps-level wargame in which one side controls a coalition of three factions simultaneously invading North America from the Pacific, South America and Cuba, and the other side defends North America with American and Canadian forces.
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Neighbors had been an officer in the Army of the Republic of Texas from 1839 to 1844. In 1842 he was one of a number of Texas officers and officials, (court and government officials) taken prisoner by Mexican general Adrián Woll at San Antonio during Woll's invasion of Texas in 1842.
Within months, Urrea gathered 6,000 troops in Matamoros, poised to reconquer Texas. However, the renewed Mexican invasion of Texas never materialized as Urrea's army was redirected to address continued federalist rebellions in other state regions in Mexico. [278] Most in Texas assumed the Mexican army would return quickly. [279]
The failure of the 1843 raids ended Texas's attempts, as an independent country, to capture territory in New Mexico. Texas joined the United States as a state in 1845, an event which precipitated the Mexican-American War of 1846–1848. New Mexico was captured by U.S. forces and became part of the United States. [8]
Fortress America is a strategic board wargame designed by Michael Gray [1] and published in 1986 by Milton Bradley.The game depicts a 21st Century United States being invaded on three sides by three world powers.