Title: San Miguel Description: San Miguel, an 1848 engraving depicting San Miguel, a town in what today is New Mexico, southeast of Santa Fe; during the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) it was an important stop on the Santa Fe Trail; U.S. troops occupied San Miguel with no resistance on August 16,1848 and then entered Santa Fe two days later; The Santa Fe Trail was a major 1800s route through central North America that connected Missouri with Santa Fe, and was the U.S. military's 1846 invasion route of New Mexico during the Mexican-American War; the war was a U.S. and Mexican territorial dispute between the Nueces and Rio Grande Rivers that led to open war between the two countries on May 13, 1846; the war ended with U.S. troops in possession of California, the Southwest, northern Mexico, and central Mexico from Veracruz to Mexico City; in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexico ceded to the U.S. the territories of California and New Mexico and all the land up to the Rio Grande River, and also relinquished its claim to Texas; in return, the U.S. paid Mexico $15 million; Category: Mexican-American War Keywords: Mexican War (1846-1848), Mexican-American War (1846-1848), Mexico, San Francisco, California, San Miguel, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Santa Fe Trail, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, United States, U.S.-Mexican War (1846-1848), 1840s. Orientation: Landscape Dimensions: 2100 x 1184 (2.49 MPixels) (16:9) Print Size: 17.8 x 10.0 cm; 7.0 x 3.9 inches File Size: 7.14 MB (7,490,206 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000038572 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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