General obligation bonds are a type of municipal government bond, which is government debt issued to raise money to finance public improvements. A general obligation bond is a municipal bond backed by the credit and taxing power of the issuing jurisdiction, rather than the revenue from a given project.
The Mexican-American War began because of a clash between the Mexican Army and the US Army in the disputed border area called the Neuces Strip (See the Thornton Affair-see Related Link shown below).
Battles of the War Overview. Hostilities between the United States and Mexico began on April 25, 1846, and continued until September 14, 1847. During the course of the war, the United States and Mexico would engage in dozens of conflicts, together losing upwards of 38,000 soldiers (Only about 1,700 U.S. deaths were directly battle-related. The rest came from disease that raged in the U.S. camps).