Among six posthumous recipients was an Army officer with ample additional claims to fame: Richard Cavazos was the first Hispanic American to ... start of the Korean War, he obtained a U.S. Army ...

Unlike the Ten Years' War, the Cuban Independence Movement of the 1890s ... The Civil War was over, the American west had been settled, and immigration was at record heights.

This began the 11-year Mexican War of Independence in which Mexico ... Month recognizes the contributions of the Hispanic and ...

Presenter Melvyn Bragg Starting at Plymouth Rock where the Pilgrim Fathers landed in 1620, Melvyn Bragg follows the development of English in the American colony - from the war of Independence and ...

16 and falls at the beginning of Hispanic Heritage Month, which runs Sept. 15 through Oct. 15. Throughout the month, many Latin American ... of the Mexican War of Independence, which ended Spanish ...