Battle of Huamantla

Battle of Huamantla

Infobox Military Conflict
conflict=Battle of Huamantla
colour_scheme=background:#cccccc


caption=
partof=the Mexican-American War
date=October 9, 1847
place=Huamantla, Tlaxcala
result=American victory
combatant1=United States
combatant2=Mexico
commander1=Joseph Lane
commander2=Antonio López de Santa Anna
strength1=3,000
strength2=2,000 lancers
casualties1=24
casualties2=461|

The Battle of Huamantla was a U.S. victory late in the Mexican-American War that forced the Mexican Army to lift the Siege of Puebla.

Background

The same day Mexico City fell to General Winfield Scott's army (September 14, 1847), Mexican forces began a siege on Puebla. Less than a month later, a relief force was organized and marched out to Puebla under the command of Major General Joseph Lane. Mexican reinforcements were also moving to Puebla under the command of Antonio López de Santa Anna, who had recently renounced his presidency.

Battle

On October 8 1847, Lane sent out spies who learned that Santa Anna's force was waiting in Huamantla, 25 miles from Puebla. The next day, October 9, Lane's vanguard of Texas Rangers under Captain Samuel Walker reached the town and sighted roughly 2,000 Mexican lancers. At the head of his Rangers, Walker charged into the city to drive out the Mexicans, but Santa Anna led a counter attack and stopped the Rangers. Walker was mortally wounded and, for about an hour, the Rangers desperately fought to hold their position in the town, some of them seeking refuge in a church. The rest of Lane's infantry arrived, attacked and drove out Santa Anna's force. When Lane heard of Walker's death he turned his troops loose, who pillaged and burned Huamantla, the only instance in the war in which a sizeable U.S. force had sacked a city.

Aftermath

The battle was Santa Anna's last. The new Mexican government led by Manuel de la Peña y Peña first tried its power when it asked Santa Anna to turn over command of the army to General José Joaquín de Herrera. Three days after the battle, General Lane fought his way into Puebla and raised the siege. Lane continued raids against Mexican guerrillas to keep the supply route between the port of Veracruz and Mexico City clear.

ee also

* Battles of the Mexican-American War

References

* Nevin, David; editor, "The Mexican War" (1978)
* Bauer, K. Jack, "The Mexican-American War 1846-48"

External links

* [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wynkoop/webdocs/1231850.htm From the "Baltimore Republican and Argus"]


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