Taylor moves south to occupy the river…

July 1846 CE

Taylor moves south to occupy the river port Camargo on July 14, 1846, to serve as a jumping off point for the invasion on Monterrey and Saltillo.

The US Army is transported via steamboats from the mouth of the river area, and Matamoros.

The soldiery suffer the first of many problems with disease.

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Ciudad Camargo Tamaulipas Mexico View →

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Mariano Paredes View → Zachary Taylor View →

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United States of America (US, USA) (Washington DC) View → Tamaulipas View → Mexico, Centralist Republic of View → Texas, State of (U.S.A.) 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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