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Show 900 LEADING FACTS OF MEXICAN NEW HISTORY organized and its compedition, called the Army of the West, was neral, Stephen W. ier-Ge Brigad ards afterw l, mand given to Colone ies of artillery, batter The command consisted of two Kearny.8® Sumner; Ist Major ns, dragoo of Major Clark; three squadrons two comand ; han Donip l Colone y, cavalr ri Missou regiment of plains the across march The panies of infantry, Captain Angney. latter the in nced comme was Fé Santa to h from Fort Leavenwort Arkansas, near the upon trated concen When 1846. June, part of 1,558 men and sixBent’s Fort,!®° the entire command consisted of tration is not concen of point exact The ce. teen pieces of ordnan nine miles benearly known, but it is said to have been at a point by Francis joined was tion expedi the that low the fort. It was here t attorney distric as y Kearn by named ards afterw Jr.,*° P. Blair, 1846, had learned so much Lord reason, new of some annex Texas, by May 1, that congress passed a joint Aberdeen’s ‘diplomatic act’ or something else, the Rio Grande still claimed resolution to annex Texas, with the boundary of who had formally declared that by her; virtually joining war with Mexico, to a declaration of war. nt equivale regarded be would n resolutio such a causes for war; and, motives, ‘‘There had been plenty of other provocations, history of nations, the great rewith a patience almost unparalleled in the with a weaker neighbor; had republic had forborne to join issue of battle to punish insults to the flag, fused to extend slave territory; had refused collect just had refused to seizure of ships, murder and robbery of citizens; courts of arbitration; or to and long-past-due claims for spoliations except in empire or do battle a British But a French and Mexican for unsurveyed boundaries. United States suzerainty on our immediate borders the Texas allow. was made a state Fremont of the Union, Pacific, and the war which had been with a weaker nation, was at last would ordered was not to the held back for a decade, as too inglorious offered unhesitatingly to three powerful ii, p. 615. nations.’?’ — Owen, Charles H., in Journal of American History, vol. in the city of 138 Stephen Watts Kearny was a student of Columbia college, of that year. the summer New York, in 1812, and would have graduated in the United States and When it became certain that war must ensue between first lieutenant in the U. 8. army; Great Britain he obtained a commission 13th U. S. Infantry at the age of eighteen. sault on Queenstown Heights, October distinguished He 13, 1812; captain, a himself April, in the as- 4, 1833, lieutenant-colonel Ist major, April, 1823, and major, May, 1829; March commissioned colonel of his Uz. 8. dragoons, and three years later, 1836, was brigadier-general and placed in comregiment; June 30, 1846, commissioned December, 1846. mand of the Army of the West; brevetted major general, Died at Vera Cruz, Mexico, October 31, 1848. Military Occupation of New Meszico, pp. 189 Four years were required in the On the northwest and southwest post. The walls which cannon were mounted. rooms, all of which faced inwardly on a was entrance the and , musketry holed for very heavy timbers. 140 The 1735. ancestors See Twitchell, H. E., The : 203-5. construction of this noted frontier corners were hexagonal bastions, 12 of the fort served as walls for the The walls were loop: court or patio. through large wooden gates made 0 William Bent destroyed the fort in 1852. of Francis P. Blair, Jr., came He was born in Lexington, Kentucky, to America February Kiowa 1813; brevet from Treland 12 19, 1821, and died at Red Moon Chiefs Powder Face Whirl Wind |