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Show ———— A ma| y the CHAPTER map| or chart : has | en be found | in the Map same cal] Number aS be re~mo AL} ved = ail andd Ca S@ under this book. VI sli ARMY OF HE AMERICAN OCCUPATION BRIGADIER-GENERAL — O ARMIJ THE West — GENERAL MANUEL TA Fe f — A CIvI L ForM STEPHE wn W. KEARNY OCCUPIES SAN OFFICI ALS N AMED or GOVERNMENT PROCLAIMED AND M AKES DonrpHAN W. ALEXANDER _.CoLONEL J 6 — CoLON EL NAVAJOS THE WITH TREATY ae en rere ese posted the New Mexican governor was ana HUW appr is eucussyc vine Spaniards were on the Subj : : ect of possible American aggression. The astuteness of Spanish character is fully revealed in this report,238 The independence of Mexico having been achieved, for a number of years commercial, socia l, and other relations betw een the two Scale and QrERLING W. Prick — UPRISING OF sig: 1847 — Murper or GoverNoR BENT VIGIL — ar Taos — DonactIANO cost the Spanish 188 Santa Fé Archives, Ms. t. he Am erPANISH and Mexican diplomacy always surpassed ain and bape pen enth ninete the of ican. In the first years ok a the representatives of that country 1n her 1 a and ofmilitary, were seeming y m civil ion eae inces,ieboth condit public affairs in the pe ae this Province 241; ‘‘The ‘los on Horse back, pp. 240disturbed 24 482 Mel; . Two Thousand Miles €onneh te eee solt iin and the United abe i oo ae os a the spatt relatio ; at ce by by Napoleon f Louisiana areas the tilities 0 n dition ever since the cession 0 troops ; had almost { c¢ come to actual hostilities risis ole Peery seaPicadas Sieainish eee emissaries There at St. was Louisevery aener aR ae one — “an eee eam RE : ae _ age oer, rect ie expedition the to ay ead pest i Aa —e 1 at their consu “Swiftl New Orleans. € co in ONJune, oe ty ofadvise? Pike’s sceeaind teh was trans ‘doches by whom the despa f govfficer at Nacogdoches by v he seat 0 ae Cordero, at San Antonio (Texas), - : intelligence © following on the heels of this report ca Pike received his in Burr ae ancien a moreandthanas suspected General Wilkinson, by the Spanish fromautsi pea srities oftalbeing deep’ to Spanis implicated im M authority : : with Burr, in the :New ) the conclusion ince that lay hi ee en in cineats movements bi . fitted up a provin the gSpanish ish g government five hundrare certainly not a violent one. Straig htway ) lar dragoons, and Don iti isti of one hundred regular 8 . Lieutenant a ee at Santa Fé, under the Ss gang a very liberal Facundo Melgares. This expedition was fitted ou Mexican ten thou of New Mexico. Translation: ‘*Report of a Late Occurrence in of February last two Indian s of n order to satisfy myse to be 48 to inte lli gence and good breeding. “‘T did not bel ieve him, and suspecting the truth of his statement as We nature of hig to » 1 sent out a small regular detac vincial troops hment and some pro‘Trop to reconnoitre, who not only fell in with a first lieute SIX Soldiers in an excellent nant with fort built on the Conejos not far from its junction with the Del Norte, two days’ journey from the capital of towards the same direct this province ion, but overcoming the obstacles of deep Succeeded in finding the Serge snows, ant and corpor him Spain not only authorities at Washington.1*? a. government sand dolla Conspiracy of Burr, of which the Spanish government had, rs, Meantime the timely advice, became know as ; n in the United States, entire ignorance of the although Pike remained event until he heard of in it en route for Chihuahua, Caracal, on the 27th at of March.’’ Miuitary GOVERNMENT, 1846-1851 al belonging to the detac making a total of thirteen soldie hment, rs, completing the full number, ven frozen feet and having two of them lost nearly all their fingers, On the 24 of March last, the above -mentioned lieutenant, whose name Mungo-Meri-Paik is e, Came in with six men of his detachment, and on © remainder of his men. Witho the 18th ut any resistance they acqui fication made them, that esced in the notibeing in my territory it was absolutely necessary ety Should appear that before me. ‘ey did 80, with their arms and I assured them that in no Should they respect be treated as risoners, : saving only, that in accordance with the orders of the gener . ding, it{ al comman 5 was necessa him and ry they should appear before fully exp! ‘*Paike Showed ain the objects of their mission. me his instructions from General Wilkins and on, his journal, ‘ ‘ @ rough sketch of a chart of all the rivers and countries he had explored. acing all which papers in a trunk, of which I requested him to retain |