Alexander Doniphan and six hundred or so…
December 1846 CE
Alexander Doniphan and six hundred or so Missouri Volunteers, after much difficulty, reach the Rio Grande in the vicinity of present-day El Paso in late December 1846, repulsing an attack by a small detachment of Mexicans at El Brazito on December 25.
Doniphan’s exhausted force rests at Paso del Norte (present-day Ciudad Juarez).