* 1836 – Texas Revolution: The Battle of San Jacinto – Republic of Texas forces under Sam Houston defeat troops under Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.

The Mexican Army included a number of horse mounted cavalry regiments as late as the mid 1990s and the Chilean Army had five such regiments in 1983 as mounted mountain troops ( see Jane's " Armed Forces of Latin America " by Adrian J. English ).

* 1847 – Mexican-American War: Battle of Buena Vista – In Mexico, American troops under General Zachary Taylor defeat Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.

The Batallón de San Patricio, a battalion of U. S. troops who deserted and fought alongside the Mexican Army against the United States in the Mexican-American War of 1846 to 1848, is also famous in Mexican history.

* 1846 – Mexican – American War: American troops occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the U. S. acquisition of California.

* 1811 – Mexican War of Independence: In the Battle of Calderón Bridge, a heavily outnumbered Spanish force of 6, 000 troops defeats nearly 100, 000 Mexican revolutionaries.

The rancher, Edward Stokes, returned with 39 American troops and information that several hundred Mexican dragoons under Capt.

They faced starvation and possible annihilation by the superior numbers of Mexican troops.

That night 200 American troops on fresh horses arrived, and the Mexican army dispersed in the face of the superior American forces.

* 1836 – Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo – After a thirteen day siege by an army of 3, 000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersman Davy Crockett and colonel Jim Bowie, defending the Alamo are killed and the fort is captured.

About 1, 400 Mexican troops, led by the French mercenary general Adrián Woll, launched a second attack and captured San Antonio on September 11, 1842.

Some months later Wilson met with Taft ( Knox was out of town on vacation ), and upon hearing the information, the President immediately and unilaterally ordered a mobilization of 25, 000 troops to the Mexican border as well as naval maneuvers in the Gulf of Mexico.

* April 13 – Mexican Revolution: Rebels take Agua Prieta on the Sonora – Arizona border ; government troops take the town back April 17 when the rebel leader " Red " López is drunk.

* April 19 – Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero's troops besiege Ciudad Juárez but General Juan J. Navarro refuses his surrender demand.

* May 8 – Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa launches an attack against government troops in Ciudad Juarez without Madero's permission ; the government troops surrender on May 10.

* May 21 – Mexican Revolution: A peace treaty is signed between Madero ' rebels and government troops in Ciudad Juarez.

* May 24 – Mexican Revolution: Government troops fire at anti-Diaz demonstrators in Mexico City, killing about 200 ( officials claim only 40 ).

* October 1 – Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa's troops take Torreón after a 3-day battle, when government troops retreat.

* May 19 – Mexican Revolution: Álvaro Obregón's troops enter Mexico City.

* March 15 – President Woodrow Wilson sends 12, 000 United States troops over the U. S .- Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa ; the 13th Cavalry regiment enters Mexican territory.

* February 13 – Mexican troops force William Walker and his troops to retreat to Sonora.

Early the next morning, a Mexican telephoned Pels that Celso Chavez, one of the posse members, was surrounded by ten Mexicans at his father's home on the upper Vermejo.

However, Ben, a former American slave who acted as cook for one of Santa Anna's officers, maintained that Crockett's body was found in the barracks surrounded by " no less than sixteen Mexican corpses ", with Crockett's knife buried in one of them.

In Rio Bravo, Chance is surrounded by allies-a deputy recovering from alcoholism ( Dude ), a young untried gunfighter ( Colorado ), an limping " crippled " old man ( Stumpy ), a Mexican innkeeper ( Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez ), his wife ( Estelita Rodriguez ), and an attractive young woman ( Feathers ) — and repeatedly turns down aid from anyone he doesn't think is capable of helping him, though in the final shootout they come to help him anyway.

On the eve of the battle, Lamar made a courageous rescue of two surrounded Texans in a move that drew a salute from the Mexican lines.

In reply, a number of Texas militia units surrounded various arsenals and armories into which Mexican central authorities had confiscated the local militia's weapons.

In November, Travis played a small role in the Siege of Bexar, during which several militia units from across the state surrounded the main Mexican position at the Alamo, forced the Mexican army to leave, and secured large numbers of weapons, ammunition and supplies.

By this time the Alamo was surrounded by Mexican troops, and according to Maverick's children ; when Maverick left, William Barret Travis ( the commander of the Texan forces at the Alamo ) urged him to convince the convention to send reinforcements.

In early September, San Antonio was surrounded by Mexican troops led by General Adrian Woll.

The buildings are surrounded by gardens planted with native Mexican species, around which wander peacocks.

With the darkness and fog, Mexican soldiers could not estimate how many men had surrounded them.

Around them is a Mexican landscape surrounded by images of sculptures from Yautepec and Oaxaca.

It is surrounded on three sides by the Mexican states of Campeche, Tabasco and Veracruz.

After the Mexican Army surrounded the small American force and threatened to destroy it, Beale and two other men ( his Delaware Indian servant and Kit Carson ) crept through the Mexican lines and made their way to San Diego for reinforcements.

Captain Duval and his men began to retreat with the regiment, however, by the time the order came, the Mexican army under the command of José de Urrea had completely surrounded the town of Goliad.

On March 13, King was surrounded by elements of the Mexican army and sent out a plea for help to Fannin, who sent Lieutenant-Colonel William Ward and the Georgia Battalion to reinforce him.

In October 1880, while moving along the Rio Grande in northern Mexico, Victorio and his band were surrounded and killed by soldiers of the Mexican Army under Mauricio Corredor in the Tres Castillos Mountains.

For the next several nights the Mexican Army band serenades the Texans with the " Degüello " ( slit throat ), followed by an artillery bombardment of the surrounded compound.

The oil slick surrounded Rancho Nuevo, in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, which is one of the few nesting sites for Kemp's Ridley sea turtles.

Founded in 1905, Empalme is a city surrounded by a municipality located on the south-central coast of the Mexican state of Sonora.

The Texian position was surrounded by trees, leaving the Mexican cavalry no room to maneuver.

Her profile also appears on a version of the $ 5 Mexican coin, surrounded by the words " BICENTARIO DE LA INDEPENDENCIA ," meaning " Bicentennial Anniversary of Independence.