Show r MEXICAN M INVASION INVASION SIXTH SINCE 1846 J T There ere have been at least six armed invasions of Mexico by the forces of the e States sin since e 1846 The first 01 of ot these was when the American forces International boundary line c crossed the tho ho and landed d In vera Cruz to begin the campaign amp In the war of t 1846 commonly i- i if deferred f ed to as S the Mexican war The he entered next time American troops Mexican soil solI was during the bor border er iro troubles bJes and and Indian depredations in l The third was when Captain Lawton at tho the he head d of United States tates bW pursued Apache Indians under T Chief Chief hie Geronimo into the Sierre Madre mountains In In 1886 and captured him pi putting tUng g an t end nd to the Apache troubles Despite threatened incursions into Mc Mexico eo o to retaliate for depredations rom Committed li ed by Mexicans after having crossed into the United States United statEs Slates forces kept ept out of ot Mexico until sprit April 21 1913 when President Wilson Nilson ordered the capture of ot Vera Cruz w The fifth invasion of Mexico by American soldiers occurred last Thursday Thursday Thurs Thurs- day ay morning when Col Herbert J J. Slocum led two troops of ot United St States tes ca cavalry In inn the th pursuit of ot Francisco Villa The sixth occurred yesterday By the terms of a treaty dated July 29 1882 it was agreed between the governments of the United States and 1 o that the federal troops of the two republics ma may reciprocally cross the boundary line of the two countries when they are In fn pursuit of a band of ot savage In Indians lans This treaty was in effect for about a n year year 1 Porfirio Diaz then president of ot l Mexico co refused to renew it General T Taylor lor entered Mexico about thirty miles north of ot Matamoros on Mar March 20 1846 On May 13 1846 13 1846 congress congress' congress congress con con- gress gress' gress declared war on Mexico after President Polk in reviewing relations between this country and Mexico had declared that Mexico has passed paned the boundary of the United States Stales l has as In Invaded Invaded invaded In- In our territory and shed American blood After the treaty of Guadalupe Hl Hidalgo the last remaining force of American soldiers left Vera Cruz on June 11 1848 Maj Gen E. E. E D D. C. C COrd Ord was sent to Texas by liy the war department to suppress suppress sup sup- press border disturbances In 1877 These disorders grew out of Indian at attacks attacks attacks at- at tacks on American towns and the Salt Lake dispute at atEl EI Paso On October 21 1877 General Ord's report said If in certain frontier districts the provincial local authorities harbor these marauding Indians and allow them to openly sell their plunder and the central government of ot Mexico is unable to control these these authorities authorities and enforce Its orders the remedy devolves on us I believe that the instructions already received allowing our troops to follow the trails of these marauders to their homes In Jn the mountains south of ot the Rio Grande are sufficient Captain Lawton pursued Geronimo and his Apache warriors into the tho Sierra Madre mountains of Mexico and captured captured captured cap cap- him in 1886 |