Narratives may provide suppositions about causes and effects, describing strategies and outcomes of certain historical events while historical timelines offers a vision of an event in facts and figures, therefore interpreting historical timeline may as well be a historical narrative, while interpreting a historical narrative is a confirmed indirect ( mediated) interpretation that could provide an outcome with a consistent historical bias
Conflict with Mexico began when the United States annexed Texas as a state in 1845. Mexico claimed that the new border between Texas and Mexico was the Nueces River, while the United States contested the border was the Rio Grande.
