The battle occurred before war was officially declared on May 13, 1846. Veracruz: The beginning of Gen. Winfield Scott's successful push to capture Mexico City. Gen. Zachary Taylor: After fighting a successful war, Taylor was elected as the 12th president of the United States. Treaty of...
and established the Mexican Empire and Federal Republic of Mexico. The United States invaded New Mexico in 1846. The empire's independence lasted until 1848, when the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the Mexican-American War. New Mexico achieved statehood on Jan. 6, 1912, as the 47th state...
The following year in New Mexico, more than 3,000 people were assigned to fight theHermit’s Peak/Calf Canyon Fire, a conflagration sparked by two prescribed burns that escaped from forest managers. The largest and most destructive wildfire in New Mexico’s recorded history, it burned for more...
The US-Mexican War (1846–48) in School Textbooks: Mexico and the United States in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century: Historical and Multinational PerspectivesRoldán Vera offers an analysis of representations of the US–Mexican War in nineteenth-century Mexican and US history textbooks. ...
ThousandsoffamilieschalkedGTT(GonetoTexas)ontheirgatesorontheirwagons,andjoinedthetrekwestward.1.TheLouisianaPurchase ❖In1803theUSbought2.6million squarekmfromFrancefor$15million.1acre/3cents,sizedoubled.❖Napoleonusedthemoneytofinance hiswarsinEurope.HealsohopedtosecuretheUSasanallyagainstEngland.❖...
As of Tuesday, it had been discovered in dairy herds in five states— Idaho, Kansas, Michigan, New Mexico and Texas — according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. HOW OFTEN DO PEOPLE GET BIRD FLU? This bird flu was first identified as a threat to people during a 1997 outbreak in...
United States Congress cuts back on funding for suppressing the slave trade. December 22, 1823 Future abolitionist leader, activist, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, is born. 1824 Louisiana enacts new slave codes. Mexico abolishes slavery. It declares that “commerce and traffic in slaves proceeding from...
And thus, two routes of the Santa Fé trail were founded. The mountain route went past Bent's fort and over Raton Pass, and the Cimarron Route cut through northern New Mexico. Before road improvements, however, the steep, narrow, brush-clogged paths up Raton could be negotiated only if wa...
The American Communists(CPUSA) were just one country. The Communists were international, so this was being done simultaneously in every country where there were Communists. Mexico was a haven of Communists during the 1930's; Presidente Cárdenas harbored Trotsky in Mexico City from 1936 till...
Brownsville, city, seat (1848) of Cameron county, extreme southern Texas, U.S. It lies along the Rio Grande opposite Matamoros, Mexico, 22 miles (35 km) from the river’s mouth. With Harlingen and San Benito it forms an industrial, agribusiness, and port