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If you're referring to CPT Seth Thornton's patrol, he was following orders, and so were the Mexicans. It's one of those ever occurring incidents, a border dispute. The US Dragoons believed they were on US turf & the Mexicans believed they were on Mexican territory.
It's happened thru-out history, and it'll keep happening. Maps are notoriously bad, even in today's computer age...even the much vaunted GPS (another form of computer) is not perfect. As long as there are "man-made borders" there will be border disputes.
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