Battle of Embudo Pass

Battle of Embudo Pass

Infobox Military Conflict
conflict=Battle of Embudo Pass


caption=
partof=the Mexican-American War, (Taos Revolt)
date=January 29, 1847
place=Embudo, now Dixon, New Mexico
result=U.S. victory
combatant1=United States
combatant2=Mexican/Indian
commander1=John Burgwin
Ceran St. Vrain
B.F. White
commander2=N/A
strength1=N/A
strength2=N/A
casualties1=1 killed
1 wounded
casualties2=20 killed
60 wounded

The Battle of Embudo Pass was part of the Taos Revolt, a popular insurrection against the United States. It took place on January 29, 1847, during the Mexican-American War, in what now is New Mexico. It was a response to the United States occupying this particular area in Mexico.

Background

Following the Battle of Cañada, the locals, both Native and Mexican retreated to Embudo, near present-day Dixon, New Mexico, where they made another stand in the narrow canyon there.

Battle

Finding the road by Embudo impractical for artillery or wagons, Colonel Sterling Price detached three companies under Captain John H.K. Burgwin, Captain Ceran St. Vrain and Lieutenant B.F. White to engage the insurgents. The result was a total rout and slaughter of the locals. The battle resulted in one American killed and one wounded. Among the defenders, 20 killed 60 wounded. Local tradition states that a series of crosses were chipped into several large rocks marking the spots where defenders were killed. These can still be seen today.

Sterling Price's official report of the battle describes it as follows:

:"The rapid slopes of the mountains rendered the enemy’s position very strong, and its strength was increased by the dense masses of cedar and large fragments of rock which everywhere offered shelter. The action was commenced by Capt. St. Vrain, who, dismounting his men, ascended the mountain on the left doing much execution. Flanking parties were thrown out on either side, commanded respectively by Lieut. White, 2d regiment Missouri mounted volunteers, and by Lieutenants Mellvaine and Taylor, 1st dragoons. These parties ascended the hill rapidly, and the enemy soon began to retire in the direction of Embudo, bounding along the steep and rugged sides of the mountains with a speed that defied pursuit. The firing at the pass of Embudo had been heard at La Joya, and Captain Slack, with twenty-five mounted men had been immediately dispatched thither. He now arrived, and rendered excellent service by relieving Lieutenant White whose men were much fatigued. Lieutenants Mellvaine and Taylor were also recalled; and Lieutenant Ingalls was directed to lead a flanking party on the right slope, while Captain Slack performed the same duty on the left. The enemy having by this time retreated beyond our reach, Captain Burgwin marched through the defile and debouched into the open valley in which Embudo is situated, recalled the flanking parties, and entered that town without opposition, several persons meeting him with a white flag."

Price's forces then marched on to Taos where they engaged in the Siege of Pueblo de Taos.

ee also

*List of conflicts in the United States
*Battles of the Mexican-American War

References

*Twitchell, Ralph Emerson, "The History of the Military Occupation of the Territory of New Mexico from 1846 to 1851", Denver, Colorado: The Smith-Brooks Company Publishers, 1909
*Herrera, Carlos R., "New Mexico Resistance to U.S. Occupation", published in "The Contested Homeland, A Chicano History of New Mexico", Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000
* Sterling Price’s Official Report on the Revolution in New Mexico, "Niles' National Register", NNR 72.121-122, April 24 1847, available at [http://www.history.vt.edu/MxAmWar/Newspapers/Niles/Nilesf1847MarApr.htm]


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