Military victories were essential in helping America win its independence from Britain. Early successes gave the Patriots ...

Seven years after Mexico declared a cease fire in their war against the drug cartels, Congress is weighing spending billions ...

Near the house is the Johnston family cemetery, and in it is this grave, named after Captain Abraham Robinson Johnston. It is ...

The Villa San Agustín de Laredo Genealogical Society, in partnership with the Joe A. Guerra Public Library Historical Collection, is inviting the community to its seventh Genealogical and Historical ...

Each Memorial Day, Americans honor the service members who gave their lives for their country. From the nation's founding to its modern military operations overseas, hundreds of thousands of U.S ...

Recounts the adventures of Samuel Chamberlain, who joins the U.S. Army during the Mexican-American War at the age of 16. He describes his journey from Boston to the war front, detailing encounters ...

and a party of U.S. Army Dragoons who overtook their caravan. The soldiers were headed to Santa Fe as tensions escalated between the United States and Mexico in the lead up to what became the Mexican ...

Does “war,” though, mean merely escalating American-Mexican tariff skirmishes, or would it include dispatching American warriors south of the border? The president did not clarify. Most drastically, ...

On February 16, nine days after Dr. Robinson had left Pike and the others, a Spanish dragoon and an Indian ... push the United States to the brink of war, he dismissed the entire Pike affair by ...

In fact, cavalry was used more in World War II than is often believed ... Captain Charles A. May of the 2nd U.S. Dragoons led a charge on a Mexican battery in 1846. Credit: Public Domain/Wikimedia ...

Borderlands and the Mexican American Story by David Dorado Romo. Crown Books for Young Readers. Aug 20, 2024. 352 Pages Mexican Americans and the Civil War: The Other Underground Railroad You’ve ...