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What role did George Bancroft play in the Mexican war?

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President Polk, whom he had helped nominate, made him Secretary of the Navy. In that post (Mar., 1845-Sept., 1846) he established the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis and issued the standing orders under which Capt. John D. Sloat, commanding the Pacific squadron, seized California ports on the outbreak of the Mexican War. That conflict formally began in May, 1846, when Bancroft, then serving also as acting Secretary of War, gave the order that sent Gen. Zachary Taylor into Mexico.

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