Battle of Carrizo
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The Battle of Carrizo was an 1861 battle, the only engagement of the Second Cortina War, and the final engagement of the wider Cortina Troubles. Juan Cortina, a Mexican rancher who had previously attacked American settlements in Texas' Rio Grande valley, sacked Carrizo, a settlement that was then the seat of Zapata County on May 22 with about thirty Cortinistas. In a forty-minute battle, Confederate Captain Santos Benavides decisively defeated Cortina, killing or capturing many of his soldiers and driving him back into Mexico.
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Captain Santos Benavides | |||||||
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Cortinista militia | Confederate States of America | ||||||
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Juan Cortina | Captain Santos Benavides | ||||||
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30 Cortinistas |
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