[Our] people are not a warlike nation. It is a soldierly one, which means it does not want war but does not fear it. It loves peace, but also its honor and freedom.
—— Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf.
We are not a warlike people. Quite the opposite. We always seek to live in peace. We resort to force infrequently and with great reluctance–and only after we have determined that it is absolutely necessary.
—— Ronald W. Reagan, July 17, 1980.
Major General Edmund P. Gaines, commander of the Western Army of the united States, and ten companies of the Militia of Mississippi, occupies the town of Nacogdoches, in the newly independent Republic of Texas.
NOTE: Gaines remained in Texas into December.
[restored 1/28/2022] Thanks to Jim Lorenz for this entry.
Brigadier General Stephen W. Kearny, commanding the Union Army of the West, enters Las Vegas (New Mexico) and claims all of Mexico west of the Rio Grande and north of the Gila River to be an enclave of the united States.
[restored 1/28/2022]
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References:
Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 128.
Use of US Forces Abroad
www.history.navy.mil/wars/foabroad.htm
Microsoft Word – Lieutenant Joseph Bonnell_ocr.doc – Lt_Joseph_Bonnell_Texas.pdf
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