Question

5. What does Ulysses S Grant state is the main goal of the US army's advance from the Nueces River to the Rio Grande?

Answer 1

Grant, who had opposed the war but served as an army lieutenant in Taylor's Army, claims in his Personal Memoirs (1885) that the main goal of the U.S. Army's advance from Nueces River to Rio Grande was to provoke the outbreak of war without attacking first, to debilitate any political opposition to the war.