Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A 1841, Scott ya zama Babban Kwamandan Sojojin Amurka, ya doke abokin hamayyarsa Edmund P. Gaines don matsayi. Bayan barkewar yakin Mexico da Amurka a 1846, Scott ya koma matsayi na gudanarwa, amma a 1847 ya jagoranci yakin da aka yi a babban birnin Mexico na Mexico. Bayan kamawa
a tashar jiragen ruwa na Veracruz, ya ci sojojin Janar Antonio López de Santa Anna na Mexico a yakin Cerro Gordo, Contreras, da Churubusco. Daga nan sai ya kama garin Mexico, bayan haka ya ci gaba da kasancewa a babban birnin Mexico kuma a kaikaice ya taimaka wa jakadan Nicholas Trist ya tattauna yarjejeniyar Guadalupe Hidalgo, wanda ya kawo karshen yakin.