On Dec. 25, 1846, the Battle of El Brazito was fought between Missouri volunteers and Mexican troops along a bend in the Rio Grande during the Mexican-American War. The victory of the Missouri ...

The community assumed its name from a soldier who served in 1846 during the Battle of El Brazito in the Mexican-American War, and who later settled in Cole County. History has somehow managed to ...

During the previous summer, the Pueblo Revolt had destroyed the upper part of the province, and the surviving New Mexicans fled southward to begin a dozen years of exile at El Paso. Santa Fe ...