I Was Wrong! Correction About Mexico And The Rio Grande
I have just corrected my Valverde articles as the battles occured in New Mexico but NOT Mexico!
I was led astray by the simplistic view that the Rio Grande forms a nice neat border with Mexico but it doesn't! It does not just flow East to West but also South to North as it snakes through New Mexico and Colorado.
Well once it might have been entirely the border - before the Mexican War gave the US New Mexico, Arizona, California and Colorado.
On the other hand, the Confederacy did have ambitions to buy much of Northern Mexico from Mexico. There were also other cross border incidents.
I was led astray by the simplistic view that the Rio Grande forms a nice neat border with Mexico but it doesn't! It does not just flow East to West but also South to North as it snakes through New Mexico and Colorado.
Well once it might have been entirely the border - before the Mexican War gave the US New Mexico, Arizona, California and Colorado.
On the other hand, the Confederacy did have ambitions to buy much of Northern Mexico from Mexico. There were also other cross border incidents.
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