History has blurred the details ... had been sent to the border of the United States and Mexico to mark a line that existed only on maps, and the work was not going well. Some say Weller struck ...

They showed its vast, curving shore on a map they presented to the continent ... who wrote “The Gulf of Mexico: A Maritime History.” “No longer was the Gulf a Spanish sea,” Sledge wrote.

Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum had ... minister Jose Alfonso Suarez del Real and a host of old maps to give a lesson in history. “The fact is that Mexican America is recognized since the ...