FALSE FLAG OPERATION (1846)—the Mexican-American War begins: Brigadier General Anastasio Torrejon, commanding the Third Calvary Regiment of the Army of Mexico, captures a Union Army of Occupation reconnoitering party of 49 mounted cavalry, commanded by Captain Seth Thornton.  Eleven Americans lose their lives.

       NOTES:

• A false flag operation is a clandestine action usually carried out by a group with an agenda, done in such a way to mislead a population into believing it is being done by someone else.
• In the opinion of history, and of the editors and writers, we are forced to agree on prima facie evidence alone that this is a False Flag incident at least in the military way.

       [restored 1/22/2022] Thanks to Jim Lorenz and Bill Holmes for this entry.