Mexican-American War Archives

March 9 in U.S. military history

1847: Over 11,000 American soldiers and a company-sized (though referred to as a battalion) force of Marines under the overall

1847: Col. Sterling Price (future major general in the Confederate Army) learns a force of nearly 2,000 Mexicans and Pueblo Indians

1846: Gen. Stephen Watts Kearney’s U.S. Army of the West, accompanied by a small detachment of mounted rifle volunteers commanded

1814: Unable to break the strong American defensive lines around Baltimore after a series of attacks, British troops return to

1847: “From the halls of Montezuma…” Gen. Winfield Scott’s army of Marines and soldiers begin their attack on the castle