. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... merican governorof the territory and several other officials onthe fourteenth of January, 1847. ColonelSterling Price, commanding the troops at ADMINISTRATION OF JAMES K. POLK. 613 Santa Fe, at once marched against the insur-gents, defeated them in two engagements,though they greatly outnumbered his force,and suppressed the rebellion. The insur-gents obtained peace only by surrenderingtheir leaders, several of whom were hangedby the Americans. Colonel Doniph
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... merican governorof the territory and several other officials onthe fourteenth of January, 1847. ColonelSterling Price, commanding the troops at ADMINISTRATION OF JAMES K. POLK. 613 Santa Fe, at once marched against the insur-gents, defeated them in two engagements,though they greatly outnumbered his force,and suppressed the rebellion. The insur-gents obtained peace only by surrenderingtheir leaders, several of whom were hangedby the Americans. Colonel Doniphan, in the meantime, hadcontinued his march. His route lay throughsi barren region destitute of water or grass, the twenty-eighth he occupied El Paso, andthere waited until his artillery could join himfrom Santa Fe. It arrived in the course of amonth, and on the eighth of Febriiiry heresumed his march to Chihuahua. On the twenty-eighth he encountered andldefeated a Mexican force of over f fteeu hundred men with ten pieces of artillery, at ipassof the Sacramento river, a tributary of th^ RioGrande. The Mexicans lost over three h^-n-. THE GREAT CANON AND LOWER FALLS, YELLOWSTONE. called the Jornado del Muerto— The Jour-ney of Death. He pressed forward withfirmness through this terrible region, his menand animals suffering greatly on the march,and in the latter part of December entf-edthe valley of the Rio Grande. With a force ofeight hundred and fifty-six men he defeatedover twelve hundred Mexicans atBrazito, onthe twenty-sixth of December, 1846, andinflicted upon them a loss of nearly two hun-dred men, losing only seven men himself. On dred killed and a number wounded. TheAmericans lost two killed and severalwounded. The Mexicans were completelyrouted, and left their artillery and all theirtrain in the hands of the Americans. On the first of March, 1847, Doniphanentered Chihuahua, and raising the Americanflag on the citadel, took possession of theprovince in the name of the Un
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