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The Porvenir massacre was an incident on January 28, 1918, outside the village of Porvenir, in Presidio County, Texas, in which Texas Rangers and local ranchers, with the support of US Cavalry, killed 15 unarmed Mexican American boys and men.
This period was referred to as the Hora de Sangre by Mexicans in South Texas, many of whom fled to Mexico to escape the violence. Estimates for the number of Mexican Americans killed in the violence in Texas during the 1910s, ranges from 300 to 5,000 killed. [9] [10] At least 100 Mexican Americans were lynched in the 1910s, many in Texas.
Texas historian Jennifer Logan wrote that Coahuiltecan culture represents "the culmination of more than 11,000 years of a way of life that had successfully adapted to the climate and resources of south Texas.” [13] The peoples shared the common traits of not farming, living in small autonomous bands, and having no political unity above the ...
The plan called for a race war to rid the American border states of their Anglo-American population and for the annexation of the border states to Mexico [citation needed]. However, the "Sedicionistas" could never launch a full-scale invasion of the United States and so the faction resorted to conducting small raids into Texas.
He fought Native Americans at the Battle of Village Creek near Fort Worth
The ensuing Mexican–American War was waged from 1846 to 1848 which cost the lives of many thousands and the loss of all northern provinces from Mexico. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the war on February 2, 1848, and established the Rio Grande as the border between the U.S. and Mexico, and led to Mexico recognizing Texas as a part of ...
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