The Thornton Affair was a battle in 1846 between the military forces of the United States and Mexico 20 miles west upriver from Zachary Taylor's camp along the Rio Grande. The much larger Mexican forc

The Battle of Palo Alto was the first major battle of the Mexican–American War and was fought on May 8, 1846, on disputed ground five miles from the modern-day city of Brownsville, Texas. A force of s