Jane Cazneau - Mexican-American War

Mexican-American War

With the outbreak of the Mexican-American War, she went to the front, where she witnessed Winfield Scott's capture of the fortress of Vera Cruz in March 1847, the first female war correspondent in American history. At the end of the Mexican-American War she turned her attention to Cuba, and the potential it represented, advocating its annexation, and denouncing its Spanish colonial overlords. She later settled at Eagle Pass, a frontier village three hundred miles up the Rio Grande from the Gulf of Mexico, getting to know many of the local Indian chiefs.