EP. 153: How to Start a War- The Warfield and Snively Raids

<p>Show Notes<br />

The 1842 Mexican invasions of Texas and their aftermath, including the Mier expedition and the Black Bean Incident.<br />

Sam Houston's use of privateer-style commissions, authorizing Charles Warfield and later Jacob Snively to raise private forces against Mexican trade on the Santa Fe Trail.<br />

Warfield's failed raid near Mora, New Mexico, and his men's 200-mile walk back to Bent's Fort after losing their horses.<br />

The unrelated robbery and murder of Santa Fe merchant Antonio José Chávez, and its effect on U.S.–Texas–Mexico relations.<br />

Snively's Battalion of Invincibles, their march to the Arkansas River, and their lopsided victory over Governor Manuel Armijo's advance scouts.<br />

Armijo's retreat to Santa Fe and the U.S. Army's intervention under Captain Philip St. George Cooke, including his disputed disarming of the Texans.<br />

The diplomatic fallout: Santa Anna's closure of the Santa Fe Trail, Texas's formal protest, and the military court of inquiry into Cooke's conduct.<br />

The shift from Lamar's aggressive New Mexico policy to Houston's peace-seeking approach, and how the boundary dispute was eventually settled in the Compromise of 1850.<br />

The later lives of the expeditions' key figures, including Jacob Snively, Charles Warfield, and Captain Philip Cooke.</p>

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