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2. Thornton Affair - Wikipedia

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   The Thornton Affair, also known as the Thornton Skirmish, Thornton's Defeat, or Rancho Carricitos, [2] was a battle in 1846 between the military forces of the United States and Mexico 20 miles (32 km) west upriver from Zachary Taylor's camp along the Rio Grande.

3. Siege of Fort Texas - Wikipedia

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   Following the Thornton Affair, Mexican forces under General Mariano Arista crossed the Rio Grande and then besieged Fort Texas, [1]: 49 after realizing that on 1 May Taylor had taken most of his forces to Fort Polk on Point Isabel to protect his supply depot. [1]: 50

4. 1846 in music - Wikipedia

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   May 22 – Francis Hueffer, music critic (d. 1889) June 23 – Anton Svendsen, violinist (died 1930) July 2 – Rosina Brandram, opera singer and actress (d. 1907) July 3 – Achilles Alferaki, composer (died 1919) July 22 – Alfred Perceval Graves, lyricist (died 1931) July 29 – Sophie Menter, pianist and composer (d. 1918)

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8. Capture of Tucson (1846) - Wikipedia

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   The Mexican War overview map. The Mexican–American War began after Thornton's Defeat in 1846. This same year a battalion of Mormon men was recruited by the United States Army in western Iowa and dispatched with General Steven Watts Kearny's "Army of the West" across what they considered the "Great Western Desert".

9. Spot Resolutions - Wikipedia

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   The location where the initial bloodshed (known as the Thornton Affair) occurred in April 1846 is located in present-day Cameron County, Texas, just north of the Rio Grande which represented the American claim for Texas's boundary with Mexico (as well as the current international border).