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The Fort Pueblo massacre (also known as The Tragedy at Fort Pueblo or The El Pueblo 1854 Christmas Tragedy) was an attack that occurred on December 25, 1854, against Fort Pueblo, Colorado, also known as El Pueblo, a settlement on the north side of the Arkansas River, 1 ⁄ 2 mile west of the mouth of Fountain Creek, [1] [a] above the mouth of the Huerfano.
El Pueblo, also called Fort Pueblo, was a trading post and fort near the present-day city of Pueblo in Pueblo County, Colorado. It operated from 1842 until 1854, selling goods, livestock, and produce. It was attacked in 1854, killing up to 19 men and capturing three people.
"The Coup de Grâce" "Parker Adderson, Philosopher" "A Watcher by the Dead" "The Man and the Snake" "A Holy Terror" "The Suitable Surroundings" "An Inhabitant of Carcosa" "The Boarded Window" "The Middle Toe of the Right Foot" "Häita, the Shepherd" "An Heiress from Redhorse"
Almada had been searching for years for documents to prove that he had been tortured by Alfredo Stroessner's military dictatorship in the 1970s.
Ciudad del Maíz is a town and municipality in the Mexican state of San Luis Potos ...
Old cemetery and ruins of old original church, Taos Pueblo, New Mexico. Fray Pedro de Miranda, the Taos mission priest, was killed in 1640. People of the Dismal River culture lived at the Kansas site from about 1450. [1] The semisedentary western Apache people lived in huts in El Cuartelejo in what is now eastern Colorado by 1640. [9]
Men of Maize (Spanish: Hombres de maíz) is a 1949 novel by Guatemalan Nobel Prize in Literature winner Miguel Ángel Asturias.The novel is usually considered to be Asturias's masterpiece, yet remains one of the least understood novels produced by Asturias. [1]
Soldados de cuera and Indian auxiliaries, 1720. The soldados de cuera (English, "leather-jacket soldier") [1] served in the frontier garrisons of northern New Spain, the Presidios, from the late 16th to the early 19th century. [2] They were mounted and were an exclusive corps in the Spanish Empire. They took their name from the multi-layered ...