Rio Grande

The Battle of the Alamo The battle of the Alamo occurred during a period when the Republic of Texas faced a bleak and uncertain future known as the Texas Revolution. American colonists were allowed to settle in Texas at the time under the New Mexican emperor Agustin de Iturbide. On 23, 1836, General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna began the 13 day siege of the Alamo. A moment in history that turned a ruined Spanish mission in downtown San Antonio, into a shrine. There were several events leading…

Alicia Alarcón’s The Border Patrol Ate My Dust collectively organizes stories and experiences of immigrants from Mexico illegally entering the United States. Each story vividly describes the challenges and risks associated with attempting to cross the border. While each story is unique in relation to the distances traveled and various life backgrounds, a recurring topic in each anecdote is seen through each narrator’s paid help for a successful border crossing. The most common term used to…

Texas claimed the Rio Grande as its southern border, while Mexico claimed the Nueces River to the north, so this caused border dispute. “Texas never controlled the territory of current day New Mexico…” (boundless.com). Texas was always trying to take land that was not theirs…

pacific ports and territory for the states, despite the Mexican Republic owning the land. The Mexican government denied Polk 's request to purchase the land, and as a result Polk appointed troops to the disputed lands between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande. An African American Newspaper, "The National Era", saw this idea of manifest destiny as an act of war, stating that the slaves could "lift [their] exulting eyes...your white masters have new victims found." The slaves felt that the…

of thing is a daily occurrence, and I would have never known about it if it weren’t for this video. Nor would I have known that there is a structuralized system of how to get into the United States illegally. There is an actual trail across the Rio Grande that has been made by illegal immigrants, so…

border can refer to a political jurisdiction, economic boundary, cultural or religious divide, or a psychological state-- or(rarely) all if these things neatly conjoined(Murphy Page. 157)”. The chapter also discusses the similarities between the Rio Grande boundary zone of America and the Rhine/Danube frontier in Roman times. Both the United States and Rme have a zone of interaction. Finally, the last chapter, “There Once Was a Great City”, discusses the complexity…

The United States in the years prior to 1841 saw little advance in field artillery tactics. However, European commanders had seen much success in the implementation of Artillery and new tactics, sparking an American interest in what had made their artillery tactics so successful. The Mexican American War would be the proving ground for the new American strategy of implementing field artillery on the battlefield, and how it has shaped the modern infantry commander’s use of it. In the years…

4.4 Interpretations The data collected from this study are not strongly affected by convective fluid flow in the wellbores or surrounding strata. Rather, the geothermal gradient profiles show a more conductive thermal regime in the vicinity of the wells. Unfortunately, the wells are too shallow to make more significant observations of the deep thermal regime, but the high geothermal gradients in the Paliza Canyon and E10 wells show some promise of quantifying temperatures of a geothermal…

Gold Rush: The California Gold Rush was the biggest mass relocation in American history since it realized 300,000 individuals to California. It began on January 24, 1848, when James W. Marshall discovered gold on his real estate parcel at Sutter's Mill in Coloma. The news of gold rapidly spread around. Individuals from Oregon, Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii) and Latin America were the first to hear the breaking news, so they were the first to touch base so as to test their fortunes in California…

Environmental Effects of the Border Wall on Animal Migration and Vegetation Introduction: The border wall has long been a controversial issue since its original proposition in the early 2000s. Aside from the obvious differences in opinions, there is a clear problem with the building of a border wall between Mexico and America, the impact on the environment due to the border wall itself and the surrounding a travelling populations of humans associated with it. As much as individuals would like to…