action of Atlixco

{{Short description|Battle of the Mexican-American war}}

{{Infobox military conflict|

conflict=Action of Atlixco

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|partof=the Mexican–American War

|date=October 19, 1847

|place=Atlixco, Puebla

|result=American victory

|combatant1={{flag|United States|1847}}

|combatant2={{flag|Mexico|1823}}

|commander1=Joseph Lane

|commander2=Joaquín Rea

|strength1= 1,500 infantry
squadron of 3rd U.S. Dragoons
5 guns

|strength2= Unknown

|casualties1= 1 killed
5 wounded, one if which was fatal.
1 missing

|casualties2= 219 killed
300 wounded

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{{Campaignbox Mexican-American War}}

The action of Atlixco, also known as the Atlixco affair, on October 19, 1847, was a U.S. victory late in the Mexican–American War by an American force under General Joseph Lane that defeated the Light Corps of the Mexican Army under General Joaquín Rea and captured their base at Atlixco a week after Lane had driven Rea from his lines and relieved the Siege of Puebla.[https://books.google.com/books?id=NhR3AAAAMAAJ&q=Atlixco Justin Harvey Smith, The War with Mexico, Vol. 2, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1919, pp.178–179, 426–427 note 17.][https://openlibrary.org/books/OL13501728M/General_Lane%27s_brigade_in_central_Mexico. Albert G. Brackett, General Lane's Brigade in Central Mexico, H. W. Derby & Co., Cincinnati, New York, 1854 pp. 146–154]