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Vicious fighting marked Taos revolt

Historian Marc Simmons begins his Saturday column:

“During the 1846-47 U.S. conquest of New Mexico, an uprising at Taos against American occupation proved to be one of the bloodiest and least understood episodes of the entire military campaign.”

Read Simmons’s concise story of the event.

Posted on April 25, 2009April 25, 2009Author NewMexiKenCategories Albuquerque & New Mexico, History

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