Jumat, 11 Agustus 2017

International Incident on the Arkansas River

In June 1843 U.S. dragoons escorting a commercial wagon train on the Santa Fe Trail confronted a group of Texian ‘land pirates’ who considered the Mexicans, not the Americans, their enemy. Texas in 1843, having defeated Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna’s forces at the Battle of San Jacinto seven years earlier, was an …

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