Title: Daguerreotype of Robert Treat Paine Description: Daguerreotype of Robert Treat Paine (February 18, 1912-February 8, 1872), an American farmer, ship builder, and lawyer from Edenton, North Carolina, who served as a colonel of North Carolina volunteers during the Mexican-American War (1846-1848); he later became a U.S. Congressman from North Carolina and moved to Texas in 1860 to resume farming; the war was a U.S. and Mexican territorial dispute between the Nueces and Rio Grande Rivers that led to open war between the two countries on May 13, 1846; the war ended with U.S. troops in possession of California, the Southwest, northern Mexico, and central Mexico from Veracruz to Mexico City; in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexico ceded to the U.S. the territories of California and New Mexico and all the land up to the Rio Grande River, and also relinquished its claim to Texas; in return, the U.S. paid Mexico $15 million; Category: Mexican-American War Keywords: colonels, Edenton, N.C., farmers, lawyers, Mexican War (1846-1848), Mexican-American War (1846-1848), Mexico, North Carolina Volunteers, ship builders, Texas, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, United States, U.S.-Mexican War (1846-1848), 1840s. Orientation: Portrait Dimensions: 1800 x 2482 (4.47 MPixels) (1.38) Print Size: 15.2 x 21.0 cm; 6.0 x 8.3 inches File Size: 12.81 MB (13,435,656 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000038531 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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