Dee ihe ọzọ maka paragraf a - N'afọ 1841, Scott ghọrọ Ọchịagha Ukwu nke Ndị Agha United States, na-eti onye iro ya bụ Edmund P. Gaines ihe maka ọnọdụ ahụ. Mgbe agha Mexico na America bidoro n'afọ 1846, a chụpụrụ Scott n'ọrụ nchịkwa, mana n'afọ 1847 o duziri agha megide isi obodo Mexico nke Mexico City. Mgbe ejidechara
n'ọdụ ụgbọ mmiri nke obodo Veracruz, o meriri ndị agha General Antonio López de Santa Anna nke Mexico na Agha nke Cerro Gordo, Contreras, na Churubusco. Mgbe ahụ, o weghaara Mexico City, mgbe nke ahụ gasịrị, ọ nọgidere na-edozi isi obodo Mexico ma na-enyere onye nnọchi anya Nicholas Trist aka ịmekọrịta nkwekọrịta nke Guadalupe Hidalgo, nke mere ka agha ahụ kwụsị.