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The Nueces Massacre, also known as the Massacre on the Nueces, was a violent confrontation between Confederate soldiers and Texas Germans [5] on August 10, 1862, in Kinney County, Texas. Many first-generation immigrants from Germany settled in Central Texas in a region known as the Hill Country .
The Battle of Gonzales was the first military engagement of the Texas Revolution. It was fought near Gonzales , Texas , on October 2, 1835, between rebellious Texian settlers and a detachment of Mexican army soldiers.
Battle of Valverde [11] February 20–21, 1862 near Fort Craig: American Civil War New Mexico Campaign: 104 Confederate States of America vs United States of America Battle of Glorieta Pass [12] March 26–28, 1862 modern Santa Fe County & San Miguel County: American Civil War New Mexico Campaign 101 United States of America vs Confederate ...
Immortal 32 Centennial Monument by Raoul Josset, 1936. Gonzales Memorial Museum, Gonzales, Texas.. The Immortal 32 was a relief force of thirty-two Texian Militia from the Gonzales Ranger Company who reinforced the Texians under siege at the Alamo. [1]
The Texas–Indian wars were a series of conflicts between settlers in Texas and the Southern Plains Indians during the 19th-century. Conflict between the Plains Indians and the Spanish began before other European and Anglo-American settlers were encouraged—first by Spain and then by the newly Independent Mexican government—to colonize Texas in order to provide a protective-settlement ...
After a short battle, the Mexican soldiers withdrew towards Béxar, leaving their pack animals behind. [52] To the surprise of the Texians, the saddlebags contained not bullion, but freshly cut grass to feed the Mexican horses trapped in Béxar. [54] Four Texians were wounded in the fighting, and one soldier deserted during the battle.
On 24 September 1857, over three years after the first massacre of Indians in Round Valley, Indian Agent Geiger reported that a white man had been killed by a Yuki for the first time. [15] Another white man was killed in early 1858, [ 52 ] and by the end of 1858 a total of four white men had been killed. [ 53 ]
During the Mexican–American War in 1847, Reno commanded an artillery battery under General Winfield Scott and fought in the Siege of Vera Cruz and other battles in Mexico. . Reno was brevetted twice during the war—once for "gallant and meritorious conduct" at the Battle of Cerro Gordo, and later for bravery at the Battle for Mexico City and the Battle of Chapultepec, where he was seriously ...