TREATY OF GUADALUPE HIDALGO

The war ends with the signing of a significant treaty. The Americans pay $15 million to Mexico, but Mexico is forced to cede 55 per cent of its territory to the United States. This amounts to 1.36 million square kilometres (525,000 square miles) of land lost.

A section of the original treaty. Such is the bitter legacy of the war that Mexicans still refer to it as the ‘War of the North American Invasion’