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The army, being led by General Toledo, had camped on the north bank of the Medina River, about six miles north of Arredondo's 1,800 Royalist troops that were encamped near present-day Leming, Texas. The battle lasted for four hours. Toledo's plan called for an ambush on the Royalist troops as they marched through a defile on the Bexar–Laredo ...
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.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 26 January 2025. Expansion of the Islamic state (622–750) For later military territorial expansion of Islamic states, see Spread of Islam. Early Muslim conquests Expansion under Muhammad, 622–632 Expansion under the Rashidun Caliphate, 632–661 Expansion under the Umayyad Caliphate, 661–750 Date ...
Yathrib renamed "Medina." [5] Baqi Cemetery established. 623 CE - Masjid al-Qiblatayn (Mosque of the two Qiblas) built. 624 CE - Prophet's House built. [1] 627 March–April: Battle of the Trench. [6] Constitution of Medina created (approximate date). [7] 630 - Medina and Mecca "established as the holy cities of Islam." [3] 632 CE / 11 H. 8 ...
1536: Cabeza de Vaca reaches Mexico City after wandering through North America. 1538: Failed Huguenot settlement on St. Kitts in the Caribbean (destroyed by the Spanish). 1539: Hernando de Soto explores the interior from Florida to Arkansas. 1539: Francisco de Ulloa explores the Baja California peninsula. 1540: Coronado travels from Mexico to ...
Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. Boorstin, Daniel J. (1967). The Americans: The National Experience. Browning, Andrew H. (2019). The Panic of 1819: The First Great Depression. Clark, Christopher (2007). Social Change in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War. Genovese, Eugene D. (1976).
A Handbook of American Military History: From the Revolutionary War to the Present, (1997) ISBN 0-8133-2871-3; Weigley, Russell Frank. The American Way of War: A History of United States Military Strategy and Policy, (1977) Utley, Robert M. Frontier Regulars; the United States Army and the Indian, 1866–1891 (1973) Richard W. Stewart, ed. (2004).
The history of California can be divided into the Native American period (about 10,000 years ago until 1542), the European exploration period (1542–1769), the Spanish colonial period (1769–1821), the Mexican period (1821–1848), and United States statehood (September 9, 1850–present).