ordered General Zachary Taylor to move a force into Texas to defend the Rio Grande border.
In January 1846, he ordered General Taylor to claim the Rio Grande as
The battle took place north of the Rio Grande River near present-day
the Texan boundary of the Rio Grande, New Mexico territory, and California.
march across the Rio Grande under your orders if required by you to do so.
New Mexico and California peacefully, Polk then ordered Brigadier General Zachary Taylor to ... On April 25, a Mexican cavalry force crossed the Rio Grande and clashed with a ...
dispatch from General William T. Sherman, Commander of the. Army, ordering United States troops not to cross the Rio Grande, and prudent intervention on the ...
Arista promptly ordered General Anastasio Torrejón to cross the Rio Grande fourteen miles upstream at La Palangana. :48. Battle[edit]. Taylor received two reports ...
On December 23, 1842, Fisher and most of the men crossed the Rio Grande and ... General Santa Anna, back in power, ordered a brief nuisance raid on San ...
On the president's orders, Taylor moved toward the Rio Grande, and on May 3, 1846 Mexican troops under General Mariano Arista crossed the river and ...