The American Patrol Report
How We Got Our Name
American Patrol Report -- November 14
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| "Remember your regiment" – 2nd Dragoons attack Mexicans following the slaughter of an American Patrol. See larger image. |
In his review of A "Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War, and the Conquest of the American Continent" by Robert Merry, Pat Buchanan links to our Web page. The link comes when Buchanan describes the ambush of an American Patrol by Mexican troops. While Pat may not have realized it at the time, the naming of the American Patrol Report was based on that historic event.
As Pat points out, following the Battle of San Jacinto, Santa Anna, the butcher of the Alamo and Goliad, signed a treaty establishing the southern boundary of Texas at the Rio Grande River. On April 25, 1846, 500 Mexicans troops ambushed and slaughtered an American Patrol of 60 men north of the river. This attack led to the Mexican war and this Web page is named for that American Patrol.
Today the United States of America is facing another aggressive attack by Mexico. In "The Great Invasion: Mexico Recovers Its Own," Carlos Loret de Mola, describes border crossers this way:
"A peaceful mass of people, hardworking, carries out slowly and patiently an unstoppable invasion, the most important in human history... it (the American Southwest) seems to be slowly returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico without the firing of a single shot..."
The original American Patrol was attacked for defending its nation. Nothing has changed. |
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