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Matamoros, officially known as Heroica Matamoros, is a city in the northeastern Mexican state of Tamaulipas, [3] and the municipal seat of the homonymous municipality. It is on the southern bank of the Rio Grande, directly across the border from Brownsville, Texas, United States. [4] Matamoros is the second largest city in the state of ...
Occupation of Matamoros: May 18 U.S. troops occupy Matamoros, Tamaulipas, with no resistance. More than 300 sick and wounded Mexicans were captured in the hospitals. Also abandoned were 5 spiked guns. (A) Battle of Monterey [1] July 7 U.S. Navy occupies Monterey, California. (A) Battle of Yerba Buena: July 10
Urrea reached Matamoros on January 31. A committed federalist, he soon convinced other federalists in the area that the Texians' ultimate goal was secession, and their attempt to spark a federalist revolt in Matamoros was just a method of diverting attention from themselves. [17] Urrea's force crossed into Texas on February 18. [18]
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The Mexican ship was outmaneuvered and repeatedly hit before running aground and being abandoned. The Port of Matamoros, also known as Los Brazos de Santiago, was the Mexican army's primary resupply base for the operations of General Santa Anna, who was finally defeated on April 21, 1836, outside Houston at the battle of San Jacinto.
The loss of Brownsville significantly disrupted Confederate cotton trade. The new trade route into Mexico lay roughly 300 miles northwest. Brownsville provided a base for further Union operations against Mustang Island and Fort Esperanza up the Texas coast. General Cobos took his vigilante force across the border and seized control of Matamoros.
The Matamoros Expedition was a planned 1836 invasion of the Mexican port town of Matamoros by rebellious Texians. As the Mexican government transitioned from federalism to a centralized government in 1835, many federalists offered armed opposition. In Mexican Texas, settlers launched a full rebellion, known as the Texas Revolution, in October ...
James Walker Fannin is ordered by the Texas General Council to attack Matamoros. January 11 James Bowie and William Blowout arrive at Goliad to support a Matamoros expedition. January 14 Sam Houston arrives at Goliad to seize control of the Matamoros expedition. J.C. Neill, commander of 78 men at the Alamo, pleads for supplies.