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The Thornton Affair, also known as the Thornton Skirmish, Thornton's Defeat, or Rancho Carricitos, [2] was a battle in 1846 between the military forces of the United States and Mexico 20 miles (32 km) west upriver from Zachary Taylor's camp along the Rio Grande.
The location where the initial bloodshed (known as the Thornton Affair) occurred in April 1846 is located in present-day Cameron County, Texas, just north of the Rio Grande which represented the American claim for Texas's boundary with Mexico (as well as the current international border).
A Mexican soldier at Palo Alto. Facing north and moving left to right, General Arista's army consisted of General Antonio Canales Rosillo's 400 irregular cavalry in chaparral, Anastasio Torrejon's cavalry brigade consisting of the 8th, 7th and Light Cavalry, astride the Point Isabel road, then came General Jose Maria Garcia's brigade of the 4th and 10th Infantry with two 8-pounders, then ...
January 26, 1844: An Act to submit to the people of Wisconsin the question of the expediency of forming a state government. [3] January 30, 1845: Resolution to declare the name of the Territory, "Wisconsin." [4] January 31, 1846: An Act in relation to the formation of a State Government in Wisconsin. [5]: 5–12
On the eve of the outbreak of hostilities with the United States, Torrejón commanded the 3rd Cavalry Brigade of Brigadier-General Mariano Arista's Army of the North, and on 24 April 1846 he forded the Río Bravo del Norte during the Mexican–American War.
Following the Thornton Affair, Mexican forces under General Mariano Arista crossed the Rio Grande and then besieged Fort Texas, [1]: 49 after realizing that on 1 May Taylor had taken most of his forces to Fort Polk on Point Isabel to protect his supply depot. [1]: 50
On April 25, 1846, in an event known as the Thornton Affair, a large contingent of Mexican cavalry attacked an American patrol in the area between the Rio Grande and the Nueces, killing 16 Americans. On May 3, Mexican troops initiated the siege of Fort Texas, bombarding a makeshift American fort along the Rio Grande.
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