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The Texan Santa Fe Expedition was a failed commercial and military expedition in 1841 by the Republic of Texas with the objective of competing with the lucrative trade conducted over the Santa Fe Trail and the ulterior motive of annexing to Texas the eastern one-half of New Mexico, then a province of Mexico. [1][2] Map of the Santa Fe Trail (in ...
Unión de Santa Fe. Club Atlético Unión (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈkluβ aˈtletiko wˈnjon]; mostly known as Unión de Santa Fe [uˈnjon de santa ˈfe]) is a sports club from Santa Fe, the capital city of the Santa Fe Province, in Argentina. The club was founded on 15 April 1907. [ 3 ] Unión is mostly known for its football team and ...
Added to NRHP. October 15, 1966. Designated NMSRCP. May 23, 1969. Fort Union National Monument is a unit of the United States National Park Service located 7.7 miles north of Watrous in Mora County, New Mexico. The site preserves the remains of three forts that were built starting in the 1850s. Also visible at Fort Union and from the road ...
Union forces in the Department of New Mexico were led by Colonel Edward Canby, who headquartered at Fort Craig.Under his immediate command at the fort were five regiments of New Mexico volunteer infantry, [6] a company of the 2nd Colorado Infantry, two provisional artillery units, eleven companies of the 5th, 7th, and 10th U.S. Infantry, [7] six companies of the 2nd and 3rd U.S. Cavalry, and ...
2-10-2. Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 2-10-2 represents the wheel arrangement of two leading wheels, ten powered and coupled driving wheels, and two trailing wheels. In the United States and elsewhere the 2-10-2 is known as the Santa Fe type, after the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway that first used ...
A similar attempt to keep Santa Fe in Texas failed, and Santa Fe became part of the New Mexico territory. [56] The United States Constitution (Article IV, Section 3) does not permit Congress unilaterally to reduce the territory of any state, so the first part of the Compromise of 1850 had to take the form of an offer to the Texas State ...
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe (37; Texas) 3800: 3829: Baldwin: 1919: Original as a Santa Fe 2-10-2 type, No. 3829 was used as an experimental engine and was the first 2-10-2 steam engine (tender version) to be fitted with a four-wheeled trailing truck as a replacement to the two-wheeled truck that No. 3829 was originally built with.
13,115 miles (21,107 km) The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (reporting mark ATSF), often referred to as the Santa Fe or AT&SF, was one of the largest Class 1 railroads in the United States between 1859 and 1996. [1] The Santa Fe was a pioneer in intermodal freight transport; at various times, it operated an airline, the short-lived Santa ...