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The Leiden gunpowder disaster was an event in which a ship carrying hundreds of barrels of black powder exploded in the town of Leiden in the Netherlands on 12 January 1807. The disaster killed 151 people and destroyed over 200 buildings in the town.
Republic of Texas vs Mexico Battle of El Brazito: December 25, 1846 near Las Cruces: Mexican–American War New Mexico Campaign 43 Mexico vs United States of America Battle of Cañada: January 24, 1847 Santa Cruz: Mexican–American War / Taos Revolt: New Mexico Campaign 38 United States of America vs Mexico & Pueblo: First Battle of Mora ...
The failure of the 1843 raids ended Texas's attempts, as an independent country, to capture territory in New Mexico. Texas joined the United States as a state in 1845, an event which precipitated the Mexican-American War of 1846–1848. New Mexico was captured by U.S. forces and became part of the United States. [8]
New Mexico: A History of Four Centuries (1962), standard survey; Bullis, Don, New Mexico: A Biographical Dictionary, 1540–1980, 2 vol, (Los Ranchos de Albuquerque: Rio Grande, 2008) 393 pp. ISBN 978-1-890689-17-9; Chavez, Thomas E. An Illustrated History of New Mexico, 267 pages, University of New Mexico Press 2002, ISBN 0-8263-3051-7
U.S. Military Province of New Mexico, 1846; U.S. Provisional Government of New Mexico 1846–1850; Unorganized territory created by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1848–1850; State of Deseret (extralegal), 1849–1850; Proposed state of New Mexico, 1850; Territory of New Mexico, 1850–1912 [1] Gadsden Purchase of 1853; American Civil War ...
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The disputed region will later become portions of the future U.S. states of New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and Wyoming. May 2: Texians (immigrants from the United States living in the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas) declare the independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico. 1835: October 2
Texas: Victory. Mexico retains control over New Mexico; Mexican–American War (1846–1848) Mexico United States California Texas: Defeat. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo; United States took ownership of California and a large area comprising roughly half of New Mexico, most of Arizona, Nevada, and Utah, and parts of Wyoming and Colorado