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The Mexican forces prepared for war. On April 25, 1846, a 2,000-man Mexican cavalry detachment attacked a 70-man U.S. patrol commanded by Captain Seth Thornton, which had been sent into the contested territory north of the Rio Grande and south of the Nueces River.
9 Νοε 2009 · On April 25, 1846, Mexican cavalry attacked a group of U.S. soldiers in the disputed zone under the command of General Zachary Taylor, killing about a dozen. They then laid siege to Fort Texas...
24 Οκτ 2024 · Mexican-American War, war between the United States and Mexico (April 1846–February 1848) stemming from the United States’ annexation of Texas in 1845 and from a dispute over whether Texas ended at the Nueces River (Mexican claim) or the Rio Grande (U.S. claim).
9 Ιουλ 2020 · Indeed, filibusterers invaded Texas during Mexico’s war for independence to aid Mexican republicans to end Spanish rule in 1812, 1817, 1819, and 1820. Emboldened by its defeat of the British at the Battle of New Orleans in 1815, the United States threatened to take the rest of Florida.
14 Μαΐ 2020 · Two long years had passed after the initial shots were fired, sparking the Mexican American War in 1846. After United States forces under General Winfield Scott captured and occupied Mexico City in 1848, Mexican President Antonio López de Santa Anna surrendered.
21 Αυγ 2023 · The American army remained at Puebla, cut off from its base at Veracruz, until reinforcements, especially Texas Rangers under Hays, reopened communications in August. Northern Mexico Campaign of the United States during the Mexican War (1846-1847). Courtesy of the Texas General Land Office database and store.
Texans fought in both Taylor’s campaigns in northern Mexico as well as General Winfield Scott’s campaign to Mexico City. Following the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo which set the Texas border at the Rio Grande, the Army maintained a significant presence along the border and western frontier of Texas.
