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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.
On April 25, 1846, a 2,000-man Mexican cavalry detachment attacked a 70-man U.S. patrol commanded by Captain Seth Thornton, which had been sent into the contested territory north of the Rio Grande and south of the Nueces River. In the Thornton Affair, the Mexican cavalry routed the patrol, killing 11 American soldiers and capturing 52. [12]
May 22 – Francis Hueffer, music critic (d. 1889) June 23 – Anton Svendsen, violinist (died 1930) July 2 – Rosina Brandram, opera singer and actress (d. 1907) July 3 – Achilles Alferaki, composer (died 1919) July 22 – Alfred Perceval Graves, lyricist (died 1931) July 29 – Sophie Menter, pianist and composer (d. 1918)
A music box (American English) or musical box (British English) is an automatic musical instrument in a box that produces musical notes by using a set of pins placed on a revolving cylinder or disc to pluck the tuned teeth (or lamellae) of a steel comb.
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As homeowner Clint Thornton was being interviewed by a television crew about the damage his Birmingham, Ala., house suffered from a recent tornado, its ceiling collapsed on-camera. Thornton was ...
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The Conquest of California, also known as the Conquest of Alta California or the California Campaign, was a military campaign during the Mexican–American War carried out by the United States in Alta California (modern-day California), then part of Mexico, lasting from 1846 to 1847, and ending with signing of the Treaty of Cahuenga by military leaders from both the Californios and Americans.