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the americans declared that california to be an independent nation.

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it is a 29,670-square-mile (76,800 km²) region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States purchased via a treaty signed on December 30, 1853, by James Gadsden, U.S. ambassador to Mexico at that time.

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Who won the war? America
What was the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo? officially titled the Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Limits and Settlement between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic, is the peace treaty signed on February 2, 1848, in the Villa de Guadalupe Hidalgo

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When: in September 1847
Where:  Mexico City
Who won? America

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he was the 12th President of the United States, serving from March 1849 until his death. Taylor previously was a career officer in the United States Army,  he rose to the rank of major general, and then became a national hero as a result of his victories in the Mexican–American War.

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he was a Mexican politician and  a general who fought to defend royalist with  New Spain and then for the Mexican independence.

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When: February 22 – February 23, 1847
Where: Mexico City
How did Taylor get lucky? he got lucky because the Mexicans snuck up on the Americans when they were not looking and took the land that the Americans claimed.

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When:  May 8, 1846
Where: Brownsville Texas
Who won? Mexicans

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Hint: it has to do with Rivers.  it Began. On April 25, 1846, when the Mexican cavalry attacked a group of U.S. soldiers in the disputed zone under the command of General Zachary Taylor, killing about a dozen. They then laid siege to an American fort along the Rio Grande River.