Coils that sometimes will reward the Model T driver with a âfree startâ if when the engine was turned off, one of the pistons stopped just after top-dead center on the compression stroke. The vibrator ignition coil system did not originate with the Model T, never-the-less; the Model T was its most famous application. In this and the following two articles we will attempt to comprehensively present the story of the Model T ignition coil.
The Mexican War. The Mexican War between the United States and Mexico began with a Mexican attack on American troops along the southern border of Texas on Apr. 25, 1846. Fighting ended when U.S. Gen. Winfield Scott occupied Mexico City on Sept. 14, 1847; a few months later a peace treaty was signed (Feb. 2, 1848) at Guadalupe Hidalgo.
The war followed in the wake of the 1845 expansion of U.S. territory with the annexation of Texas. Texas had revolted against Mexico in the 1836 Texas Revolution, but Mexico continued to consider it part of its national territory. Annexation by the U.S. escalated the dispute between the nations into war.fter the declaration of war on May 13, 1846, U.S. forces invaded Mexican territory on two main fronts. The U.S. War Department sent a U.S. Cavalry force under Stephen W. Kearny to invade western Mexico from Jefferson Barracks and Fort Leavenworth, reinforced by a Pacific fleet under John D. Sloat.