Shortly before dawn on September 16, 1810, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla made a monumentous decision that revolutionized the course of Mexican history. Within hours ... Before the revolutionary troops ...
who wrote “The Gulf of Mexico: A Maritime History.” “No longer was the Gulf a Spanish sea,” Sledge wrote. “It was an American sea.” That dominance continued when the United States ...
Colonizers have always coveted the Gulf of Mexico: its trade winds, ports, fish and shellfish, its deep pockets of oil and gas far beneath a basin floor of crashed, tectonic plates.