Battle of Huamantla
{{Short description|Mexican-American War battle}}
{{Infobox military conflict|
conflict=Battle of Huamantla
|colour_scheme=background:#cccccc
|image=Walker-huamantla.jpg
|image_size=300
|caption=The death of Capt. Walker
|partof=the Mexican–American War
|date=October 9, 1847
|result=American victory
|combatant1={{flag|United States|1847}}
|combatant2={{flag|Mexico|1823}}
|commander1={{flagicon|United States|1847}} Joseph Lane
|commander2={{flagicon|Mexico|1823}} Antonio López de Santa Anna
|casualties1=13 killed
22 wounded{{rp|331}}
10 missing.
|casualties2=?
|}}
{{Campaignbox Mexican-American War}}
The Battle of Huamantla was a U.S. victory in the late stages of the Mexican–American War, which forced the Mexican Army to lift the siege of Puebla.Bauer, K.J., 1974, The Mexican War, 1846–1848, New York: Macmillan, {{ISBN|0803261071}}{{rp|331}}
Background
Santa Anna left Puebla at the end of September to intercept Joseph Lane's relief column, planning an ambush at Paso del Pintal.{{rp|331}} Upo learning of Santa Anna's at Huamantla, Lane left his supply train under guard and marched toward that city, with Captain Samuel H. Walker's four cavalry companies leading the advance.{{rp|331}}
Battle
Walker charged, upon seeing Santa Anna's lancers, driving the Mexicans from the town.{{rp|331}} Santa Anna led a counterattack, Walker was shot by a civilian in a nearby house, and his men retreated into a church.{{rp|331}} The Mexicans then retreated to Querétaro.{{rp|331}}
Lane allowed his troops to engage in a drunken sack of the town.{{rp|331}} They reached Puebla on 12 October, lifting the siege.{{rp|331}}
Order of battle
=United States=
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| Lane's Brigade[https://books.google.com/books?id=wyMuAAAAYAAJ&dq=Major+Lally+Huamantla&pg=PA497 History of the Mexican War by Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox][https://books.google.com/books?id=pjtyAAAAMAAJ&dq=Major+Lally+Huamantla&pg=PA463 History of the War Between the United States and Mexico by John Stilwell Jenkins]
BG Joseph Lane |
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| Guarding Supply Train
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=Mexico=
Mexican Army: General Antonio López de Santa Anna
See also
References
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Further reading
- Nevin, David; editor, The Mexican War (1978)
External links
- [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wynkoop/webdocs/1231850.htm From the Baltimore Republican and Argus]
- [http://library.uta.edu/usmexicowar/ A Continent Divided: The U.S. - Mexico War], Center for Greater Southwestern Studies, the University of Texas at Arlington
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