Forget Cinco de Mayo. The real celebration should be reserved for VM Day - Feb 2
The Treaty of Guadalupe HidalgoThe Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed in village of Guadalupe Hidalgo on February 2, 1848, ending the Mexican War and extending the boundaries of the United States west to the Pacific Ocean.
There shall be firm and universal peace between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic…
Article I, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed February 2, 1848.
The terms of the agreement confirmed U.S. claims to Texas and established the border between the U.S. and Mexico at the Rio Grande and the Gila River. The treaty also granted the U.S. more than 525,000 square miles of former Mexican territory that includes present-day California, Nevada, Utah, most of New Mexico and Arizona, and parts of Colorado and Wyoming. In exchange, the U.S. paid Mexico $15 million for the territory and agreed to assume the claims of American citizens against the Mexican government, a sum of approximately $3 million. This treaty, along with the 1853 Gadsden Purchase, completed the continental expansion of the United States.
https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/february-02
