Commander-in-Chief Polk orders General Zachary Taylor to advance his 2,400 strong Union Army of Occupation, to the Nueces River—which is claimed by Mexico to be the boundary with the united States.
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Subsequent Events:
References:
Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 126.
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