Thornton Affair
Here’s your Thornton. Btw, it’s just an open field with trees and a few cannons just to create smoke. I just look at the pictures in the battlefield and modify the battlefield by either adding trees, sandbags and cannons or just making up some buildings. But this aint got no building. Hurry up and either defend Texas or invade it…
Rancho de Carricitos
April 25, 1846
2.5 miles east of Bluetown, Texas
United States of America/Centralist Republic of Mexico
USA:
Seth Thornton
William J. Hardee
Mexico:
Anastasio Torrejón
Wiki:
The Thornton Affair, also known as the Thornton Skirmish, Thornton’s Defeat, or Rancho Carricitos was a battle in 1846 between the military forces of the United States and Mexico 20 miles (32 km) west upriver from Zachary Taylor’s camp along the Rio Grande. The much larger Mexican force defeated the Americans in the opening of hostilities, and was the primary justification for U.S. President James K. Polk’s call to Congress to declare war.
