FALSE FLAG OPERATION (1846): At the Battle of Palo Alto (Texas), Major General Zachary Taylor, commanding the voluntary Union Army of Occupation, defeats the Army of the North of Mexico, commanded by Division General Mariano Arista.

       NOTES:

• Democratic (constitutionalist) had met with his Cabinet, and decided that whether or not the Army of Mexico attacked Taylor he would request that the Democratic 29th Constitutional Congress (elected in accordance with Article I, Section 3 [Clause 1]), declare war anyway.
• A false flag operation is a clandestine action usually carried out by a group with an agenda, done in such a way to mislead a population into believing it is being done by someone else.
• In the opinion of history, and of the editors and writers, we are forced to agree on prima facie evidence alone that this is a False Flag incident at least in the military way.

       [added 11/6/2020] Thanks to Jim Lorenz and Bill Holmes for this entry.