The Bear Springs Treaty had quelled a …
Years: 1847 - 1847
February
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.
Locations
People
Groups
- Zuni people (Amerind tribe)
- Hopi (Amerind tribe)
- Ute (Amerind tribe)
- United States of America (US, USA) (Washington DC)
- Santa Fe de Nuevo México
- Chihuahua (Mexican state)
- California Territory
- Mexico, Second Federal Republic of
Topics
- Jacksonian Democracy (United States)
- “Manifest Destiny” and American Expansion; 1840-1851
- Mexican-American War
- Sacramento River, Battle of the
