[permalink] [id link]
By October 1845, 4000 troops, nearly half the U. S. Army, under orders of President Polk, were positioned on the north side of the Rio Grande. The Mexican garrison of Matamoros under Gen. F. Mejia consisted of the Zapadores ( Sappers ) Battalion, the 2d Light, 1st & 10th Line Infantry Regiments, the 7th Cavalry Regiment, Villas of the North Aux Cavalry, several Companies of Presidales and the Matamoros National Guards Battalion.
from
Wikipedia
Some Related Sentences
By and October
By October 1993, Armenian forces succeeded in occupying almost all of former NKAO, Lachin and large areas in southwestern Azerbaijan.
By October he had taken a prospective hijacker Mushabib al-Hamlan from Afghanistan to Saudi Arabia where they both procured B-1 / B-2 tourist / business visas on October 28 – but Hamlan then decided not to proceed and is thought to have returned to his family.
By October 2007 bluetongue had become a serious threat in Scandinavia and Switzerland and the first outbreak in Denmark was reported.
By the time the offensive was ready in late October, Eighth Army had 231, 000 men on its ration strength.
By October 1962, they may have had a few dozen, although some intelligence estimates were as high as 75.
By the end of October, Allen was again off New York, where the British, having secured the city, moved the prisoners on-shore, and, as he was considered an officer, gave Allen limited parole.
By the time You Bet Your Life debuted on TV on October 5, 1950, Groucho had grown a real mustache ( which he had already sported earlier in the films Copacabana and Love Happy ).
By October 1934, he had them surrounded, prompting them to engage in the " Long March ", a retreat from Jiangxi in the southeast to Shaanxi in the north west of China.
By 7 October 1966, the first floodlit game was held at Cardiff Arms Park, a game in which Cardiff RFC beat the Barbarians by 12 points to 8.
By August 21, however, it had increased in brightness by one magnitude, then by October had faded from view.
By 1939, with the exception of Stalin himself, none of the original Bolsheviks of the October Revolution of 1917 remained in the Party.
North Korean forces were soon defeated by September and driven northwards by United Nations forces led by the U. S. By October, the U. N. forces had retaken Seoul and captured Pyongyang, and it became Kim's turn to flee.
By 1 October, 128 Type A barges had been converted to airscrew propulsion and, by the end of the month, this figure had risen to over 200.
By and 1845
By a further act of 1541 — which was not repealed until 1845 — artificers, labourers, apprentices, servants and the like were forbidden to play bowls at any time except Christmas, and then only in their master's house and presence.
By 1830, the cigarette had crossed into France, where it received the name cigarette ; and in 1845, the French state tobacco monopoly began manufacturing them.
By 1845, fewer than 240 wealthy Europeans held all the pastoral licences then issued in Victoria and became the patriarchs "... that were to wield so much political and economic power in Victoria for generations to come.
By 1845, the cotton growers in the interior Black Belt had become some of the wealthiest in the country, and power was shifting toward the southern and central part of the state.
By 1845 the town had been laid out, and in 1869 the name Alamo replaced Cageville as a memorial to Davy Crockett and those who died at Battle of the Alamo.
By 1842 he started started another version, with alterations, corrections, and notes of his own ; it was published in two volumes in 1845 as A History of England under the Anglo-Saxon Kings.
By the end of 1845 he stood at the head of the parliamentary bar but his objections to taking the Oath of Supremacy deterred him from accepting the professional honour of Queen's Counsel.
By 1845, the work was largely complete, though Madden was to suffer one more setback when a fire broke out in the Museum bindery, destroying completely some further works from the collection.
By 1845 astronomers found that the orbit of planet Uranus around the Sun departed from expectations.
By the time he married, in 1845, Bazalgette was deeply involved in the expansion of the railway network, working so hard that he suffered a nervous breakdown two years later.
1.181 seconds.