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Capture of Tucson (1846)

Capture of Tucson
Part of the Mexican–American War

The Mormon Battalion at the Gila River (Gila Bend, AZ) by George M. Ottinger.
DateDecember 16, 1846
Location
Result United States victory
Belligerents
 United States  Mexico
Commanders and leaders
United States Philip St. George Cooke Mexico Antonio Comaduran
Strength
360[1] 200

The Capture of Tucson was an uncontested United States entry into the Mexican city of Tucson, Sonora, now the present day Tucson, Arizona. The would-be combatants were provisional Mexican Army troops and the American Army's "Mormon Battalion". Tucson temporarily 'fell' in December 1846 without resistance but was immediately reoccupied two days later by the Mexican forces once the US troops moved on.

  1. ^ Cooke, Philip St. George (1964). The Conquest of New Mexico and California, an Historical and Personal Narrative. Albuquerque, NM: Horn and Wallace. pp. 147–154, 175.

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