The Bear Springs Treaty had quelled a…

The Bear Springs Treaty had quelled a large scale insurrection by the Ute, Zuni, Hopi, and Navajo tribes.

After the successful conquest of New Mexico, American troops move into modern-day northwest Mexico.

Alexander Doniphan’s force decimates a Mexican detachment about twenty-five miles north of Chihuahua at the Sacramento River crossing on February 28, 1847.