The following spring, however, General Sam Houston retaliated at San Jacino with his American soldiers and quickly defeated General Santa Anna’s troops. This victory gave Texas its independence from Mexico, assured expansion of Manifest Destiny westward, and ultimately led to the U.S. Mexican ...
et al. The earliest settlers of Mesoamerica date back to the late Pleistocene. PLoS ONE 12, e0183345 (2017). PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Williams, T. J. et al. Evidence of an early projectile point technology in North America at the Gault Site, Texas, USA. Sci. Adv. 4, ...
Santa Fe’s history begins with Native American communities, particularly the Pueblo people, who inhabited the region long before Spanish settlers arrived. Today, this legacy is celebrated through local museums, art, and the preservation of traditional cultural practices. Spanish Colonial Influence When ...
Mexico Pan-American Highway, route of one of the toughest road races in the world Driving in Mexico: is it safe relative to other countries? The geography of road transport in Mexico At the end of the nineteenth century, during the successive presidencies of Porfirio Díaz, railway building ...
“La Curva de la Gringa”, the American woman’s curve, a place name in Michoacán, Mexico Unusual place names in Mexico Mexico’s Spanish language place names This is the fourth and final part of our series of guest blogs by Fatimah Araneta. ...
Following the Mexican-American War, from 1846–1848 and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, Mexico ceded its mostly unsettled northern holdings, today known as the American Southwest and California, to the United States of America.[21]:132 In the Compromise of 1850 Texas ceded its claims...
The sheer number of illegal migrants coming into the country has made it so that every state is now a border state. This isn’t just an issue for Texas and other states along the border. This is an issue for every American. And this issue is about preserving this great nation for our...
7.Jeffrey P.Bezos,the founder,president and chairman of the board of Amazon.com,was born in Albuquerque,New Mexico.His mother's ancestors were early settlers in Texas,and over the generations had acquired a 25,000acre farm at Cotulla.Jeffrey spent most summers of his youth working with his...
Jeffrey P.Bezos,the founder,president and chairman of the board of Amazon.com,was born in Albuquerque,New Mexico.His mother's ancestors were early settlers in Texas,and over the generations had acquired a 25,000acre farm at Cotulla.Jeffrey spent most summers of his youth working with his gr...