The Battle of San Pasqual The battle of San Pasqual was one of the many battles fought against Americans to protect their land. The greedy American government was determined to conquer California from Mexico and make it part of the union. The mass migration of immigrants caused the widespread of people to flee south. Mexico had departed from Spain in 1821. California wanted to manage their own affairs however, they lacked self government. Pio Pico was the civil governor and Jose Castro was the
and December 7, 1846, General Stephen W. Kearny's US Army of the West, along with a small detachment of the California Battalion led by a Marine Lieutenant, engaged a small contingent of Californios and their Presidial Lancers Los Galgos (The Greyhounds), led by Major Andrés Pico. After U.S. reinforcements arrived, Kearny's troops were able to reach
Kearny, was one of the three groups sent to go invade parts of Mexico. Kearny was given orders to keep the trade between both countries going so he and his men would be patrolling along the Santa Fe Trail and escorting the Mexican merchants to make sure everything ran smoothly during the trade
able to defeat the Mexican force at the battles of Resaca de la Palma and Palo Alto. At the time, only about 75,000 Mexican citizens lived north of the Rio Grande. As a result, United States forces led by Commodore Robert F. Stockton and Col. Stephen W. Kearny were able to take control over those areas with much ease. Taylor also had very little trouble advancing, and he seized Monterrey in
people they learned farming and from the Spanish they learned how to raise goats and sheep (Navajo Facts, 2014). The first contact the Navajo people had with the United States government was in 1846 during the Mexican American War, when General Stephen W. Kearny invaded Santa Fe and the soldiers traveled into Navajo country (Navajo Facts, 2014). A peace treaty was signed, but it was not honored by a lot of the younger generation of Navajos and Americans. Over the next couple of years the United States
In the 1800’s America was a growing super power with its growing population increasingly expanding westward toward the pacific ocean. However with this new expansionism came new conflicts with the recently independent Mexico. A combination of factor such as U.S annexation of Texas, the growing idea of Manifest Destiny and the prize of California would eventually spark the United States third major conflict, the Mexican-American War. Present day Texas in the 1800’s was apart of the Mexican empire