A history of Missouri and Missourians; a text book for "class A" elementary grade, freshman high school, and junior high school .. . Indians who were giving trouble. Despite the mountain-ous country and the cold weather, the Missourians reachedthe Indian strongholds and a treaty of peace was made. Afterreturning to Santa Fe, Colonel Doniphan with about 1,000Missourians marched south toward Chihuahua, located southof the Rio Grande in old Mexico. The plan was to join theUnited States army here. The march was through suffering of the men and their animals from thirst andcold was terr
A history of Missouri and Missourians; a text book for "class A" elementary grade, freshman high school, and junior high school .. . Indians who were giving trouble. Despite the mountain-ous country and the cold weather, the Missourians reachedthe Indian strongholds and a treaty of peace was made. Afterreturning to Santa Fe, Colonel Doniphan with about 1,000Missourians marched south toward Chihuahua, located southof the Rio Grande in old Mexico. The plan was to join theUnited States army here. The march was through suffering of the men and their animals from thirst andcold was terrible. After crossing the Rio Grande, supplieswere found. At Brazito, in old Mexico, a battle was foughton Christmas day, 1846, and the Mexicans were badly de- Military Missouri 215 featcd. From Rrazito Doniphans expedition went to El Paso,Texas, where it was well received. From here the marchwas resumed to Chihuahua, 200 miles farther. Fifteen milesfrom Chihuahua a force of 4,000 Mexicans, well armed andsupported by artillery, attacked the Missourians in the moun-tain i):i<^ of Sacramento. Here the battle of Sacramento was. BATTLE OF SACRAMENTO. BY CARPENTER fought and the Missourians again were victorious. TheMexicans had prepared strings and handcuffs for the Mis-sourians. The Mexicans lost 200 killed and 300 wounded,the Missourians lost one killed and eleven wounded. Afterreaching Chihuahua the march was resumed southeastward toSaltillo, 470 miles away. The city was captured and the ex-pedition continued to the mouth of the Rio Grande the men took ship and reached their homes during thesummer of 1847. Their land marches had extended 3,000miles. They had successfully fought two pitched battles withthe Mexicans, had defeated the Navajos, had conquered threelarge provinces, and had entered a score of towns and cities. 2i6 History of Missouri and Missourians And all this they accomplished in the midst of a hostilepopulation of hundreds of thousands of people, again
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