Modern era · 1846

Battle of Palo Alto

The Battle of Palo Alto (Spanish: Batalla de Palo Alto) was the first major battle of the Mexican–American War and was fought on May 8, 1846, on disputed ground five miles (8 km) from the modern-day city of Brownsville, Texas.

Battle of Palo Alto
Battle of Palo Alto · Adolphe Jean-Baptiste Bayot / Carl Nebel, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
When
8 May 1846
Where
Brownsville
Era
Modern

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