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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.
Aside from the issue of Texas, foreign affairs under Jackson were generally uneventful, [6] [7] and his administration's foreign policy focused on expanding trade opportunities for American commerce. [8] According to Jonathan Goldstein, the Jackson was the first presidency to actively promote export and import opportunities with Asia.
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The affair had a hand in the replacement of the Telegraph as the main propaganda instrument for the administration. Jackson enlisted the help of longtime supporter Francis Preston Blair , who in November 1830 established a newspaper known as The Washington Globe, which from then on served as the mouthpiece of the Democratic Party.
Historian John Ashworth writes that the two parties were polarized on essential questions of economic development, describing their competition as a "clash of democracy with capitalism". [152] Whigs held that the government had a duty to promote economic prosperity for the people, especially during economic downturns. [ 9 ]
Ashford v Thornton (1818) 106 ER 149 is an English criminal case in the Court of King's Bench which upheld the right of the defendant to trial by battle on a private appeal from an acquittal for murder. In 1817, Abraham Thornton was charged with the murder of Mary Ashford. Thornton had met Ashford at a dance and had walked with her from the event.
Jesse Quinn Thornton (1810–1888) was an American settler of Oregon, active in political, legal, and educational circles. He served as the 6th Supreme Judge of the Provisional Government of Oregon , presented Oregon's petition for official territorial status to Congress , served in the Oregon Legislature , and wrote the state's motto.
Thornton Blackburn (c. 1812–1890) was a self-emancipated formerly enslaved man whose case established the principle that Canada would not return slaves to their masters in the United States and thus established Canada as a safe terminus for the Underground Railroad.