Kearny's Entrance to New Mexico
Series: Centennial Journeys
From: New Mexico Centennial
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General Kearny leads the Army of the West to Santa Fe and claims New Mexico for the United States of America.
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War! On the 13th of May 1846, President James K. Polk proclaimed a state of war between the United States and Mexico. The US military assembled the Army of the West under the command Stephen Watts Kearny, to invade New Mexico and then California. Leaving Fort Leavenworth on July 1st, Kearny's command of 1,600 men and artillery arrived near Bent's Fort on the 1st of August. Kearny sent road crews ahead to improve the trail and by the 9th the army had passed into New Mexico, crossing rugged Raton Pass in a single arduous day. On the morning of the 15th, Kearny entered Las Vegas. Addressing the assembled people from atop a one-story adobe building, Kearny proclaimed, “I have come to take possession of your country and extend over it the laws of the United States." - "Not a pepper, not an onion, shall be disturbed or taken by my troops without pay, or by consent of the owner." Meanwhile,...
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