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To: Kartographer

Under the picture of the Palace of Governors, it indicates that the Texans won, when in fact they were soundly defeated after having all their supplies burned.


9 posted on 03/11/2012 9:37:04 AM PDT by Concho (-)
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To: Concho

It was a victory on the battlefield for the Texans, but a chance discovery and destruction of their supplies at Johnson’s ranch made the army’s occupation of New Mexico untenable, so they withdrew rather than sustain themselves by foraging and scorched-earth tactics. Other civil war events prevented a return.


11 posted on 03/11/2012 10:39:32 AM PDT by ngat
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