General Zachary Taylor receives word on February…

February 1847 CE

General Zachary Taylor receives word on February 21 of Santa Anna’s advance.

His forty-six hundred men men outnumbered three to one, he takes up a position a few miles from Saltillo at at a mountain pass called Buena Vista.

Santa Anna suffers desertions on the way north and arrives with fifteen thousand men in a tired state.

He demands and is refused surrender of the U.S. Army; he attacks the next morning.

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Saltillo Coahuila Mexico View →

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Antonio López de Santa Anna View → Braxton Bragg View → Jefferson Davis View → Pedro de Ampudia View → Winfield Scott View → Zachary Taylor View →

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Jacksonian Democracy (United States) View → “Manifest Destiny” and American Expansion; 1840-1851 View → Mexican-American War View →

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