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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.
Monument Hill is a memorial to the men who died in the Dawson Massacre and in the Black Bean Episode of the ill-fated Mier Expedition. [2] Kreische Brewery’s ruins are a relic to the golden age of Texas craft brewing and represents the contribution of German immigrants to the unique culture of the state.
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 ...
He emigrated first to Kentucky and came to Texas in 1836, arriving just after the Texas Revolution. 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 ...
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. [1] [2]
Marilyn M. Sibley, ed., Samuel H. Walker's Account of the Mier Expedition (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1978). Charles D. Spurlin, "Ranger Walker in the Mexican War," Military History of Texas and the Southwest 9 (1971). Doug J. Swanson, Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers (New York: Viking, 2020)
This was to be in retaliation for the Mexican raids on San Antonio in 1842 and for the mistreatment of Texas prisoners captured in the Mier Expedition and on the Texian Santa Fe Expedition. Despite defeating a detachment of Mexican soldiers on the Arkansas River , they caused a border incident with the United States, and were disarmed by U. S ...
He was a resident of Mier but applied for Porcion 17 in Revilla (Guerrero Viejo), where he had a ranch at a place called La Santisima Trinidad. The town is called Mier because the governor of Nuevo León from 1710 to 1714, Francisco Mier y Torre, used to spend the night there on his way to Texas. It began to be called Estancia de Mier and then ...