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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.
A skirmish on the northern side of the Rio Grande ended in the death or capture of dozens of American soldiers, and became known as the Thornton Affair. [114] While the administration was in the process of asking for a declaration of war, Polk received word of the outbreak of hostilities on the Rio Grande. [114]
Battle Date Engagement remarks Result; Thornton Affair: April 25/26 Skirmishing in the disputed borderlands of South Texas. (M) Siege of Fort Texas: May 3–9
Fort Mason was established on July 6, 1851, in present-day Mason County, Texas.It was named in honor of George Thomson Mason, a United States Army second lieutenant killed in the Thornton Affair during the Mexican–American War near Brownsville, April 25, 1846.
At Rancho Carricitos he attacked Captain Seth Thornton's two companies of American dragoons and defeated them in the "Thornton Affair", the start of the war between the U.S. and Mexico.
He served with the 2nd U.S. Dragoons, and was second in command to Seth Thornton, when they were ambushed and surrounded by Mexican troops and subsequently captured on April 25, 1846, at Carricitos Ranch, Texas, during the "Thornton Affair". He was exchanged on May 11. [3]
The Texas Campaign was the first front in the Mexican–American War, fought between the United States and Mexico.The front started with a Mexican assault near Brownsville.
The Blackburn riots occurred during the summer of 1833 in Detroit, Michigan. [1] They were the first race riots in the history of the city. The riots were spurred by the imprisonment of Thornton and Rutha Blackburn, an African-American couple that had escaped slavery in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1831. [1]