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In 1846 Brigadier General Stephen W. Kearny led an army of 1,700 soldiers into Santa Fe to claim it and the New Mexico Territory for the United States. The Mexican military forces in New Mexico retreated to Mexico without fighting and Kearny's forces easily took control of New Mexico.

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