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The Mier expedition was an unsuccessful military operation launched in November 1842 by a Texian militia against Mexican border settlements; it was related to the Somervell expedition. It included a major battle at Ciudad Mier on December 26 and 27, 1842, which the Mexicans won.
In late December 1842, the Mier Expedition was a raid on the Mexican border settlement of Ciudad Mier, which turned into the Batalla de Mier when the Mexican Army arrived. Cameron and the other Texans were taken prisoner, after inflicting a large number of casualties on the other side.
Texan Santa Fe Expedition: Texas Militia Hugh McCleod / George T. Howard 320 POW Failure [48] 1842 Somervell Expedition Texas Militia Alexander Somervell Unknown Inconclusive [49] 1842 Mier Expedition / Battle of Mier: Texas Militia William S. Fisher 30 KIA, 280 POW Loss [50] 1843 Naval Battle of Campeche: Texas Navy: Edwin Ward Moore: 7 KIA ...
As a member of the John Coffee Hays's Rangers, Wallace killed "as many inoffensive Mexicans as he could to avenge his imprisonment after the Mier Expedition". [1] Wallace later participated in the Comanche Wars. In the 1850s, Wallace commanded a ranger company of his own, fighting border bandits as well as Native Americans.
John Christopher Columbus Hill (November 15, 1828 – February 16, 1904) was a Texan citizen who, at age 13, accompanied his brother and father on the Mier Expedition.He was captured, adopted by the Mexican president Santa Anna, and eventually became a successful engineer in the United States and Mexico.
Richard Fox Brenham (c. 1810 – February 11, 1843) was an American physician, and member of the Texan Santa Fe Expedition and the Mier expedition. [ 1 ] Early life
The monument of the fallen men of the Dawson Massacre and the ill-fated Mier Expedition.. On September 18, 1848, the remains of Texans killed in the Dawson Massacre and the Black Bean Episode, which had been retrieved from their original burial sites, were reinterred in a common tomb with a sandstone vault at the location now known as Monument Hill.
He also served in the Army of the Republic of Texas during the Texas Revolution, and fought in the Mier expedition. [7] During the American Civil War, Danley was a member of the Arkansas Military Board, alongside Henry Massey Rector. [8] In 1861, he and Thomas James Churchill were sent north to purchase munitions. [9]