Colonel Sterling Price, having occupied New Mexico…
January 1847 CE
Dissenters in Santa Fe had plotted a Christmas uprising following General Kearny's departure for California.
When the plans were discovered by the U.S. authorities, the dissenters had postponed the uprising.
They have attracted numerous native allies, including Puebloan peoples, who also want to push the Americans from the territory.
On the morning of January 19, 1847, the insurrectionists begin the revolt in Don Fernando de Taos, present-day Taos, New Mexico, which will later give it the name the Taos Revolt.
They are led by Pablo Montoya, a New Mexican, and Tomás Romero, a Taos pueblo Indian also known as Tomasito (Little Thomas).
Romero leads a native force to the house of Governor Charles Bent, where they break down the door, shoot Bent with arrows, and scalp him in front of his family.
They move on, leaving Bent still alive.
With his wife Ignacia and children, and the wives of friends Kit Carson and Thomas Boggs, the group escapes by digging through the adobe walls of their house into the one next door.
When the insurgents discover the party, they killed Bent, but leave the women and children unharmed.
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